My experience is that
g formats do not put the leading zero
f formats put the leading zero
Thus:
.. format var2 %9.1f
.. desc
Contains data
obs: 6
vars: 2
size: 72 (99.9% of memory free)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
var1 float %9.0g
var2 float %9.1f
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorted by:
Note: dataset has changed since last saved
.. l
+-------------+
| var1 var2 |
|-------------|
1. | 1 1.0 |
2. | 1 1.0 |
3. | 2 2.0 |
4. | 2 2.0 |
5. | .1 0.1 |
|-------------|
6. | .1 0.1 |
+-------------+
..
Thomas J. Steichen
[email protected]
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seb Buechte
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Displaying values less than one with a zero in
> front of the comma
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> is there anyway to force stata to generally display 0.5
> instead of .5 ?
>
> I do not think that setting a fixed format with leading zeros
> like %08.2 is really the solution. Many times I just do not
> know in advance wether my calcs will return values less
> than 1 and greater than -1...I appreciate you help!
>
> Kind regards,
> Sebastian
>
>
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