Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:08:07 -0700
From: Steven Dubnoff <[email protected]>
>Since you are coming from dBASE with Stat/Transfer, you may want to handle
>this in Stat/Transfer. I suggest that you first go from dBASE to delimited
>ASCII, which will give you much more control over variable types.
As Steve suggests, probably the best solution is "forcin" a string in
Stat/Transfer, and then destring-ing (force) later
Thanks
best,
Guillermo
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
