Re: st: recoding strings

[Thushyanthan Baskaran <baskaran@staff.uni-marburg.de>]

Hi Nick!
-encode- didn't work properly, but the -replace- solution did.
Thanks a lot!!


n j cox wrote:
> Not so far as I know. You could -encode-
> your string variable, then apply -recode-.
> Otherwise it is a matter of a series
> of -replace-s.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
>  >>> Thushyanthan Baskaran (edited)
>
> I would like to recode a string variable. However, -recode- accepts 
> numeric values only. Is there a similar command for string variables?
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