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Re: st: RE:
Thanks a lot.
Cinzia
Martin Weiss wrote:
>Seems that "nato" is a string (which cannot be equal to 42). If Stata
treats it as string, but it is really only numbers, consider -destring-
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cinzia Rienzo
>Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:13 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject:
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>Dear Statlisters,
>
>i wonder if you could help to solve this:
>
>I am generating a new variable but STATA does not allow me to do that i
>think becasue of the format of the variable "nato":
>
>g continents= nato
>replace continents=1 if nato==42
>type mismatch
>
>
>format nato if year==1994
>
> variable name display format
> -----------------------------
> nato %9s
> -----------------------------
>
>while i suspect the format should be %8g? Correct?
>
>I would appreciate any suggestions/help.
>
>Best
>
>Cinzia
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