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Re: st: destring command
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: destring command
Date
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:02:31 +0100
Your problem is self-inflicted. As you are instructing -destring- to
ignore "-", all negative signs are stripped.
Nick
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Abu Camara <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying the following command to destring variables in the
> IMF weo data just released. I imported it to Stata but all variables
> become string.
> When I use Stata's destring command, values that are negative becomes
> positive,i.e lose the negative sign.
> Any help would be appreciated. A loop to do this task at once will
> also be appreciated.
>
> Command: destring v13, gen(yr1983) ignore(, n/a -- )
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