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st: RE: data conversion


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: data conversion
Date   Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:38:29 -0500

You need to specify the format:

gen dob2 = string(dob1, "%10.0g")

or you could use -tostring-

tostring dob1, gen(dob2)

Hope this helps,
Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Nizam Khan
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: data conversion

Hi Statalister,

I want to convert dob1,which is a numeric variable, into a string variable.
So I created dob2=string(dob1). But, for example, I want to see "dob2"
as "19410700" not "1.94e+07". How can I do it?

               dob1       dob2

               19410700   1.94e+07

Thanks.


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