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Re: st: how to keep first four figures of a variable


From   Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: how to keep first four figures of a variable
Date   Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:20:03 -0700 (PDT)

Nobuya,

You can generate the new variable with the command below. This only
works if the original variable is in numeric and not string format.

. gen new = floor(original/1000000)

Friedrich Huebler

--- "FUKUGAWA, N." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
> I would like to make a change in a variable.
> A new variable keeps only first four figures of ten-digit variable.
> 
> original -> new
> 1980000123 -> 1980
> 1996123456 -> 1996
> 
> How do I generate such variable using Stata?
> Thank you in advance.
> ---
> FUKUGAWA Nobuya, Ph.D.
> [email protected]
> See my works at www.ssrn.com


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