STRGEN: Stata module to generate string variables without knowing string type

Nicholas Cox

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: strgen generates a new string variable as the result of an expression with a string result. The string type, whether str1 ... str80, is determined automatically as the smallest string type which will hold the data.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 6.0
Keywords: string variables; generate; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01-16
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install strgen". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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