help mata mm_realofstr()
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Title

    mm_realofstr() -- Convert string to real

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  Note: An official strtoreal() function was introduced in Stata 9.1 (see
  help [M-5] strtoreal()). This makes mm_realofstr() obsolete.
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Syntax

        real matrix mm_realofstr(string matrix s)


Description

    mm_realofstr(s) returns s as a numeric value or missing using Stata's
    real() function (see help string functions).

    When arguments are not scalars, mm_realofstr() returns element-by-element
    results.


Conformability

    mm_realofstr(s):
         s:  r x c
    result:  r x c


Diagnostics

    mm_realofstr(s) returns missing if s cannot be converted.


Source code

    mm_realofstr.mata


Author

    Ben Jann, ETH Zurich, jann@soz.gess.ethz.ch


Also see

    Online:  help for [M-5] strtoreal(), [M-5] strofreal(), [M-4] string,