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st: RE: RE: Truncating data


From   "Nichols, Austin" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Truncating data
Date   Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:03:58 -0400

The proposed solution works well if every observation is 
exactly 4 digits, but if you have a variable whose length 
varies and you really want the first 2 digits, try:

. gen byte x2 = real(substr(string(x1,"%12.0f"),1,2))
. li x1 x2, noo clean
            x1       x2
            12       12  
          1234       12  
       1234567       12  
    1234567890       12  

If it is a string variable, you can:
. gen byte x2 = real(substr(x1,1,2))

-----Original Message-----
From: Hulley, Benjamin (NIH/NCI) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:45 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: st: RE: Truncating data


Assuming x1 is numeric and all observations are 4 digits you could

gen x2 = int(x1/100)

-Ben

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