Re: st: encoding unique letter into a unique number for combinedcombinations

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Thanks for the fix (and the kudos).
And yes, better to leave the oldvar, I got carried away by brevity...

clonevar newvar=myvar
forv i=1/26 {
   replace newvar = subinstr(newvar,char(`i'+64),string(`i',"%02.0f"),.)
}


Nick Cox wrote:
> There is a typo here in that the format %02.0f should
> be in " ". And I would definitely leave the old variable
> in place. Otherwise this solution is neater than mine. 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
> Jeph Herrin
>  
> > If your example is strictly true (you have all
> > uppercase letters, you want to map A->1,..., Z->26),
> > then:
> >
> > forv i=1/26 {
> > 	replace myvar = 
> > subinstr(myvar,char(`i'+64),string(`i',%02.0f),.)
> > }
>  
> T.J. Volant 
>  
> > > How
> > > can I program so that it will encode each unique
> > > letter into a unique number? Example:
> > > I got hundreds of combinations of strings like:
> > > ABC
> > > ABB
> > > ACA
> > > Then, encode only gives me 1,2,3 in order. But I would
> > > like to label letter A=01, B=02, C=01 etc, and then
> > > have encode give me 010203, etc. How can I program
> > > this? 
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