st: Re: left aligned string vars

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Friedrich wants to automate his leftist tendencies. Using auto.dta, gen  
mm = make, then

. local crud:type mm

. local format="%-"+substr("`crud'",4,.)+"s"

. format mm `format'

. desc mm

              storage  display     value
variable name   type   format      label      variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-------
mm              str17  %-17s


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