A good bet in this circumstance is to make
it a string variable again using -tostring-.
Make sure you specify a format which produces
leading zeros.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Rebecca Kalmus
> Sent: 18 May 2004 19:36
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: inputting string variables in comma-separated files
>
>
> Dear Stata users,
>
> When inputting a comma-separated file using infile or
> insheet, how can I
> force Stata to read a variable as string? I have a variable
> that Stata
> automatically reads as numeric, but contains leading zeros
> that are lost
> when read as numberic. I'd like to force Stata to read this
> variable as
> string instead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rebecca Kalmus
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