Title
decompress -- Recast variable list to maximal data type
Syntax
decompress [varlist]
Description
decompress Recasts all variables in a variable list to the largest data type in the list. The varlist must either be all numeric variables or all string variables.
Remarks
String data types are ordered by their length. The numeric data types are ordered
double > float > long > int > byte
Example
. decompress foreign mpg gear_ratio
Author Jeffrey Arnold jeffrey.arnold@gmail.com
Also see
Online: data types, compress, recast