Dear all,

I am trying to destring my variable "district".

However, I get the following error:

Code:
. destring district, replace
district: contains nonnumeric characters; no replace
Here's an example of my data from dataex:

Code:
* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input str35 district
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ADUR"        
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"ALLERDALE"   
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
"AMBER VALLEY"
end
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am using Stata 15.1.