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Re: st: Destringing alphanumeric string variables
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Destringing alphanumeric string variables
Date
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:49:52 -0500
Dmitriy Krichevskiy <[email protected]>:
drop if mi(real(V1))
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Dmitriy Krichevskiy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
> I have a dataset which includes a string variable that I'd like
> changed to numeric. the issue is some of the observations have a
> non-numeric components. I would like to drop those observations that
> are not numeric only. I cannot think of a way to do it either with
> -destring-, -encode-, or -substr()-. Below is the data example. As
> always, all input is greatly appreciated.
>
> ID V1
> 1 99xx
> 2 1034
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