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RE: st: need help destringing a variable


From   "Frank de Libero" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: need help destringing a variable
Date   Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:04:31 -0700

Using regex also works, and is more general:

gen numonly = regexs(1) if regexm(ns,"^([0-9]+)"

See -help regexm-

..Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Svend Juul
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: need help destringing a variable 

James wrote:
 
I just want to convert all the strings in one variable 
into integers. e.g., the variable is grade_school 
(current grade in school) and the variable column has 
"2nd" "5th" etc., and I want to make it "2", "5" by
issuing just one command.
 
---------------------------------------------------------
 
-destring- with the -ignore()- option does it. Try this:
 
   clear
   input str4 ns
   1st
   2nd
   3rd
   4th
   5th
   10th
   end
 
   destring ns , generate(n) ignore("s, t, n, d, r, h")

Hope this helps
Svend
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