----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Hawley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 8:49 AM
Subject: st: tsset in ver 8
> Does anyone have a strategy to use tsset when the panel var is a string?
> And....the quick solution of translating the variable to numeric will not
> work because the variable has leading zeros.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Josh Hawley
> Ohio State
> [email protected]
Try -encode-
encode id, gen(id2)
tsset id2 time
Hope this helps,
Scott
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