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st: Re: Re: Splitting numeric values


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: Re: Splitting numeric values
Date   Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:04:35 -0400

No you can't -- if you recast as an int, you will lose many more digits of accuracy -- including all of the digits you want to extract.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Keesman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: st: Re: Splitting numeric values



Hi,

You can recast as an integer  eg.

***************************
clear

input a

610102001001010300

end

recast int a, force

d

tostring a, replace

d

***************************

Regards

Karl
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