>From martina brandt <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
Subject st: destring
Date Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:39:30 +0100
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dear statalist,
Martina wrote:
i am trying to destring the following variable:
type: string (str27), unique values: 9 missing "": 0/1060
Values "Consumption" "Earnings, Gross" "Earnings, Net" "Expenditure"
"Income, .." "Income, Disposable" "Income, Gross"
"Monetary Income, Disposable" "Monetary Income, Gross" ....
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-destring- is for converting a string variable with numeric content to a numeric variable. Lookup -encode-; it is the appropriate command for your task.
Hope this helps
Svend
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