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Re: re changing variable types
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: re changing variable types |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:17:08 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Debora Randall <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks Ben. I think the problem is that the person who coded the data has put
> in commas to separate the thousands. This way, it is making it look non
> numeric. I will get her to rechange this and try it again.
If that's the problem, then I think that you just need a
different command, something like this:
COMPUTE newvar = NUMBER(COMMA40.0, oldvar).
EXECUTE.
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Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
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- Re: re changing variable types, John Darrington, 2011/02/20
- Re: re changing variable types, Debora Randall, 2011/02/26
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- Re: re changing variable types, Debora Randall, 2011/02/26