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| From | Abu Camara <abucamara@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: destring command |
| Date | Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:30:32 +0300 |
Dear Statalist, I am trying the following command to destring variables in the IMF weo data just released. I imported it to Stata but all variables become string. When I use Stata's destring command, values that are negative becomes positive,i.e lose the negative sign. Any help would be appreciated. A loop to do this task at once will also be appreciated. Command: destring v13, gen(yr1983) ignore(, n/a -- ) -- Best Wishes, Abu Camara * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/