Guillermo Cruces
> I just want to make clear why I prefer a string id over a
> numerical id.
> While I can store it as a long or double with no precision problems,
> I've had some difficulties with some operations. For instance, I
> sometimes need to egen - concat (say, "household id" and
> "person number"
> to get "perdon id") and I've had "rounding" problems with that, and
> being a number I cannot gen strX pid=hid+pernumber...
Please show an example. I don't see how this can happen
if you follow the golden rule that numeric ids be held
as integers.
Nick
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