Absolutely! 
Nick 
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Siyam, Amani
 
> Thanks for your response. I am actually putting together a short *.ado
> to perform an analysis that requires that matrix of characters. 
> 
> I have Stata 9.1 and I thought of using Mata but if I do that then any
> user with a Stata version lower than 9.0  will not be able to run my
> ado.
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that.
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