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Re: st: destringing a variable?


From   Ronan Conroy <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: destringing a variable?
Date   Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:45:05 +0100

On 12 Sep 2007, at 16:35, Ms. Marilyn Ibarra wrote:

However, my variable 'foreign_id' is constructed as follows:

firm foreign_id
1 5011x
1 5011x
1 5011x
2 0017
2 0017
2 0017
etc.

I guess the solution is to get rid of the 'x' part. Anyone know how I can easily do this so I am left with:

Yes. If you look at the help file for -destring- it says

destring_options         description
  ignore("chars")        remove specified non-numeric characters

So adding the option

. destring foreign_id, replace ignore("x")

will do exactly what you want.

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