Stata Str. We have doctor notes stored in 500 other files with names like notes17213 xyz notes18417 xyz and so on. Similarly byte int and long are usually used to hold integers.
Patients are screened prior to being scheduled for admission to ensure that dsh napa is the appropriate treatment setting. You can now use stata s string variables to hold exceedingly long strings even the contents of files or even binary files. Say we have data on 500 patients stored in our stata dataset patients dta.
Stata like most software holds numeric data to finite precision and in binary form.
Similarly byte int and long are usually used to hold integers. Associated with each type of data is its storage type i e. The numbers are stored as byte int long float or double. String stranslated into a stata name ustrtrim s removes leading and trailing unicode whitespace characters and blanks from the unicode string s ustrunescape s the unicode string corresponding to the escaped sequences of s ustrupper s.
