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Best, Sergiy
On 2/8/08, Ms. Marilyn Ibarra <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a text file with data that looks like this:
>
> us_id firm_name
> 000007 x
> 012231 y
> 100210 z
> 345211 w
>
> I imported the txt file. When I do this I get data that looks like this:
>
> us_id firm_name
> 7 x
> 12231 y
> 100210 z
> 345211 w
>
> As you can see the zeros at the beginning of the first two observations of us_id are dropped. How do I prevent this from happening because I need it in the format of the original txt file. I need it to be a string variable and not numeric.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
>
> Marilyn.
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