replace x="0"+x if length(x)==1
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Alejandro Delafuente
[mailto:alejandro.delafuente@st-antonys.oxford.ac.uk]
Sent: 09 June 2005 12:44
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: two-digit string variables
Hi statalisters,
I have a string variable with two-digit and one-digit values. How can I tell
Stata to place zeros before those one-digit values so that I end up with two
digits in all cases always. For instance,
x x(desired)
34 34
3 03
25 25
Many thanks for any help!
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