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Re: st: insheet and strings
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
Re: st: insheet and strings
Date
Fri, 8 Mar 2013 13:21:11 +0000
I doubt it. -insheet- is intended largely to map from spreadsheet
ideas to statistical software ideas to the extent possible, which
includes a built-in bias to believe that your variables are numeric.
You could convert such variables back to string with
tostring myvar, format("%02.0f")
Nick
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Sonja Wehberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I frequently use insheet. Unfortunately it sometimes converts string variables. Can I prevent that (without adding an alphanumeric suffix)?
>
> Example (version 12):
>
> input x str2 s
> 1 "04"
> 2 "10"
> end
> list
> format s
>
> outsheet using "test.csv", delim(";") replace
> insheet using "test.csv", clear delim(";")
> format s
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