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st: Destringing alphanumeric string variables
From
Dmitriy Krichevskiy <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Destringing alphanumeric string variables
Date
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:34:37 -0500
Dear Statalisters,
I have a dataset which includes a string variable that I'd like
changed to numeric. the issue is some of the observations have a
non-numeric components. I would like to drop those observations that
are not numeric only. I cannot think of a way to do it either with
-destring-, -encode-, or -substr()-. Below is the data example. As
always, all input is greatly appreciated.
ID V1
1 99xx
2 1034
3 11456
4 33181
5 102xx
6 43xx
7 93127
8 642xx
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Dmitriy Krichevskiy Ph.D. Candidate
Economics Department
Florida International University
www.fiu.edu/~dkrichev
Research Associate, College of Education
Lumina Foundation Project
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