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Re: st: Constructe a string variable


From   "Oleksandr Talavera, BC" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Constructe a string variable
Date   Thu, 17 Apr 2003 02:04:31 -0400

There is also another solution
* N is number of digits in your format, 3 in your case
scalar N=3
g str`N' X1= substr(string(10^(N-length(string(X)))),2,N-length(string(X)))+string(X)
*----------

I tried for N=7
+--------------+
| X X1 |
|--------------|
1. | 2 0000002 |
2. | 45 0000045 |
3. | 56 0000056 |
4. | 6 0000006 |
+--------------+

Best,
Sasha

[email protected] wrote:


Dear Listers:

Suppose I have a string variable with 3 position on each observations.
Each of these observations contains some values range from 1-999.
i.e.:
X
obs1 1
obs2 12
obs3 123
(though all entries are numerical, but variable X is of string format)

My purpose is to reconstruct this variable to be the following formate:
X
obs1 001
obs2 023
obs3 345

i.e. I want to replace the left postition for each observation with "0" if nothing here.

I have tried the following method:

gen str1 X1=substr(X, 1, 1)
gen str2 X2=substr(X, 2, 1)
gen str3 X3=substr(X, 3, 1)

my idea is that if I can divide original variable(X) into 3 pieces, and then I can replace the missing( or " ") into 0, and then re-combine the variable.

However, in the above data example.
the X1 (=substr(X,1,1) is always equal to:
obs1 1
obs2 2
obs2 3

(the corerct one should be:
obs1 obs2 obs2 3

That means, the function of -string- or -substr- in Stata will always return the first values of that observations no matter its' real position.
I am just wondering whether anyone knows an easier function or command to deal with that?


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