st: Reshape question

[Charles Lee <cl4kb@virginia.edu>]

Hi,

I'm trying to reformat my data such that row observations in a single column
are filtered into separate columns. Currently, my data looks like this:

LETTERS
---------------
a
b
c
d
a
b
c
d

Now, the goal is to put similar observations (e.g. all the a's) into
separate columns.  So, in the example above, there would be four
columns, one for each letter.  Does anyone know how I can do this
systematically?

Thanks,

-- 
Charles Lee
Master of Public Policy Candidate 2011
Georgetown University
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