findit tostring
This should give you a link to a user ado file that will convert numbers to
strings.
James Valcour
Chau Do wrote:
>
> Dear statausers,
>
> What is the command to change a numeric variable to a string variable? i
> have looked in the help menu and faq, but have only found commands for the
> other way around; i.e, numeric into string. i have tried the decode but i
> believe that this is the wrong command, or at least it gives me an error
> message when i try it.
>
> THanks
> Chau
>
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