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st: Re: keep if variable is string


From   Shubhabrata Mukherjee <[email protected]>
To   stata forum <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: keep if variable is string
Date   Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:48:26 -0800 (PST)

Thanks a lot. Bot solutions work bu the --ds-- is much faster.

-Joey



----- Original Message -----
From: Shubhabrata Mukherjee <[email protected]>
To: stata forum <[email protected]>
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 8:08 PM
Subject: keep if variable is string

Hi,

 I am using --insheet-- to read in a big file where some variables are numeric and some are string.

 How can I keep the variables that are string only?
Thanks,

 -Joey

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