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st: Re: gen a_n = real(a) does not create any values


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: gen a_n = real(a) does not create any values
Date   Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:28:33 +0200

string to numeric is usually accomplished via -destring-

Martin Weiss
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabian Brenner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 8:25 PM
Subject: st: gen a_n = real(a) does not create any values



Dear all:

I use Stata 8 and in order to add two variables a+b (a is format str5 %5s, b is format str13 %13s) I want to convert these string variables to numeric variables.

I use: gen a_n = real(a)

Stata generates new values for a_n. But using the browser I see that variable a_n doesn't have any values. What's wrong?

Thanks,
Fabian

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