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st: RE: Capturing the data type of a variable


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Capturing the data type of a variable
Date   Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:09:55 -0000

Yes. 

local type : type <varname> 

For your purposes, you might want to go straight
to -ds-. 

. ds, has(type 10/244) 

names all such variables, after which you can loop 

. foreach v in `r(varlist)' { 
	... 

To do this, you need Stata 8 updated after 17 June 2003. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

PAUL HEWETT 
> 
> I am looking to loop through each of the variables in my 
> dataset and manipulate variables that are of data type str10 
> or more. Is there any way I can capture the data type of a 
> variable? Neither describe or codebook seem to have return 
> codes r( ) that would serve this purpose. If I can capture 
> the variable type as a string, e.g., "byte", "str5", 
> "integer" it would easy from there.

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