Nick Cox wrote:
> Joseph Coveney suggested -encode- after
> -label define- while Michael Blasnik
> pointed to the -subinstr()- function.
>
> Another solution is not needed therefore,
> but there is in -egenmore- on SSC a
> user-written -egen- function, -ston()-
> (think _s_tring to _n_umeric) which offers
> an alternative. Using that we have, say,
>
> foreach v of var party? {
> egen `v'n = ston(`v'), from(c d l n) to(1/4)
> }
>
> -ston()- has a twin -ntos()- to do the inverse.
Thanks for this.
C.
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