Hello Fabian,
real() is perfectly valid and should work.
It will properly handle spaces, e.g. real(" 5 ") is 5, but it will
not handle other non-numeric characters, except decimal separator,
plus and minus signs (any other exceptions?). So one explanation is
that the string representation of a number contains an unprintable
non-numeric character, like a tabulation:
. di real(char(9)+"5")
.
also try -browse, nol- to see if labels are somehow involved
And clarify, how do you know that values are generated if you don't see them?
Regards,
Sergiy Radyakin
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> string to numeric is usually accomplished via -destring-
>
> Martin Weiss
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabian Brenner" <[email protected]>
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> Subject: st: gen a_n = real(a) does not create any values
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>> 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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