--- Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
> The formatted string function needs to have the
> format specified as a
> numeric type, that is, "%16.0f" and not "%16".
Thank you Joseph. I had actually typed
. generate y = string( a1,"%16s")
(It was wrong in my post)
I though that the format had to be a string format.
According to the help file:
"string(n,"%fmt") converts n into a string with %fmt
display format."
Best,
Ricardo.
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Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
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