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Re: st: How to convert exponential format into numeric values in stata
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Indu Khurana <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to convert exponential format into numeric values in stata
Date
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:56:37 -0500
Thanks Richard!!
That works.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Richard Goldstein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> when you use stat/transfer, go to the "variables" window and make this
> variable a string variable
>
> Rich
>
> On 2/28/11 4:26 PM, Indu Khurana wrote:
>> Hi Statlisters,
>>
>> I am trying to convert some 5000 ids like:
>> 129728016047866
>> 160544769097502
>>
>> into stata. This id file is in excel. When i used stat transfer to
>> export it into stata, it generated this in stata file:
>> 1.297e+14
>> 1.605e+14
>>
>> How can I have the same id number in stata directly from excel or
>> convert exponential format into numeric values when data is in stata
>> ??
>>
>> thanks!!
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