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sysuse auto 
tostring mpg, format(%04.0f) gen(s_mpg) 

This won't work if there are non-numeric
characters in the variables concerned. 

Nick 
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Joe McCrary
 
> I've got a number of tab-delimited text files that I'm reading into
> STATA 8.2 using insheet. The problem I'm having is that the first 3
> variables need to be read is as text, not numeric. Here is one line of
> data:
> 
> 86309	0060	010051000229	0	84	69	66	
> 48	69	75	84	78	87	81	75	
> 63	69
> 
> In looking over the infile/dictionary commands, it appears that I
> cannot specify a delimeter in the dictionary file.
> 
> Could someone please tell me how to read those first 3 in as strings?

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