Stata String To Float. Force specifies that any string values containing nonnumeric characters in addition to any specified with ignore be treated as indicating missing numeric values. Changing from string to numeric is easy with encode being the command of your choice.
The entire computation is then made in double precision and that result is rounded to a float. See also the dpcomma option below. If for some reason you want to convert a numeric variable into a string variable you may use the complementary function decode.
If for some reason you want to convert a numeric variable into a string variable you may use the complementary function decode.
If for example you had a gender variable consisting of ones and zeroes that encoded as str1 and was therefore all numbers you could use the destring command. When you have a number stored as a float and you make a calculation such as. If for example you had a gender variable consisting of ones and zeroes that encoded as str1 and was therefore all numbers you could use the destring command. The entire computation is then made in double precision and that result is rounded to a float.
