Hi there,
I have converted a 15 digit string into a numerical number by using real()
command. My problem is that now the data is read as floats while I want it
to be in doubles as the string happens to be the caseId of my data. How
do I proceed??
Thanks
Kompal
Very bad idea. There is no way of representing this many digits reliably as
a floating point number, even using double precision; the last digit is
likely to be random. Keep the case ID as string. If you need to have a
numeric variable underlying it (e.g. in order to tsset), use encode. But do
not try to generate a 15 digit integer -- it won't work reliably.
