RE: st: how to merge two variables into one

["b. water" <barleywater@hotmail.com>]

thanks nick for your reply. it turns out that -trim()- was not what i was 
looking for. i managed to get what i want (99% of it in any case) by trial 
and error with helps from the manual (i looked at append, merge, trim and 
searched for concat, where i stumbled upon egen option that did the trick). 
this is the command that i used:

egen studynyr = concat (study year), punct(" ")

i tried to right justify the apperance of studynyr by adding format (%15s)

i.e.: egen studynyr = concat (study year), format (%15s) punct(" ")

but keep getting 'Invalid format'. however when i list the data, appearance 
seems to be as i like it so i might not have to force right justification 
but i would still appreciate advice on how to get the right justification 
command correct.

regards,
bw


> From: "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: RE: st: how to merge two variables into one
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:43:57 -0000
>
> When you say merge, I guess you mean
> concatenate.
>
> Assumed that you have applied -trim()-,
> right-alignment is a matter of format,
> not of what the values are, nor of how
> they are held informally.
>
> You should read up the help on formats.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> b. water
>
> > i have two variables: studynames and yearofstudy e.g. Alshop
> > 1981, Bell 1992.
> >
> > what i want to do is to merge the two variables such that:
> > Alshop 1981
> >     Bell 1992
> > i.e. somehow it is right-aligned in each cell.
> >
> > would be grateful for help in achieving this.
> >
> > platform: stata 8.2, os wxp pro sp2.
>
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