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What you want may be -labmask- from -labutil- on SSC.
Nick
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Doogar, Rajib
> In Stat 9.2, how can I use the values of v2 (str 40, say) to label v1
> (int)? My data looks something like this:
>
> V1 V2
> 1234 somerandomstring1
> 1234 somerandomstring1
> 2345 somerandomstring2
> ....
> 6578 somerandomstringn
> ....
> etc.
>
> I tried to encode v2 and then attach the resulting label to v1. I
> encoded v2 all right, but then got stumped by how correctly
> to link the
> labels to the values of v1. Encoding v2 gave me labels numbered 1 to
> xxx, but v1 is a four digit number (although it does take exactly xxx
> distinct values).
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