Hi all,

In my Dataset I have 12241 unique values, every individual is represented by the variable codind (it can appear in several lines) which is a string variable and I would like to have it as a numeric variable such that the first individual is called 1, the second one 2 until the last one called 12241. Here I add an example of the Dataset, in this case the first individual is 10001T0QF100100 and the second one 10002E0QF380100:

Code:
* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input str15 codind
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10001T0QF100100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
"10002E0QF380100"
end
Thank you very much,
Pablo