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st: Re: Formatting fields


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: Formatting fields
Date   Sat, 8 Oct 2005 07:48:08 -0400

You need to make id2 a double when you generate it otherwise you are using a float (by default) which does not contain enough digits of precision.

Michael Blasnik
[email protected]

----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: st: Formatting fields



Hi!

I have two files one file has ID in the form str10 the other in the form 12.0g.

I want to merge the data by the ID

When I perform a command to change the str var to numeric, the new numeric
field comes in as a float %9.0g

When I reformat that field to 12.0g, the field values change completely.

For instance,

gen id2 =real(id)
<snip>
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AND HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

P.S. Using version 6.0

Have a great day!

Chris
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