Re: st: RE: Leading Zero's

["SJ Friederich, Economics" <S.Friederich@bristol.ac.uk>]

Alexander_Quarshie@msm.edu wrote:

> Dear all,
> Does anyone know a quick way in STATA to add leading zeros to a numeric
> variable (even if I have to convert it to a string, that would be okay).
> A typical example might be to convert the following numbers to a standard
> five-digit number with leading zeros: 2 -->  00002
> 33 --> 00033
> 473 --> 00473
> 59724 --> 59724

This comes up fairly regularly. See:

findit leading zeros

Sylvain
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