On 2/27/03 11:39, Nick Cox wrote
>Bill Rising
>
>> Nick also gave a solution for replacing all 0's:
>>
>> >
>> > real(subinstr(string(myvar),"0","",1))
>> >
>>
>
>This replaces the _first_ zero found.
>
>> If it were known that the last zero were the evil zero,
>> this could be
>> done via:
>>
>> real(reverse(subinstr(reverse(string(myvar,%30.0g)),"0","",1)))
>>
>> (at least if the number is smaller than Stata's longs)
>>
>
Oops. Wasn't reading too close.
Bill (redfaced)
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