st: re: creating a variable equal to the last number of another

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Victoria wants to do the opposite:

My problem is similar to Maria's, but from your command I cannot  
figure out how to apply it to my case.

Basically I just need to keep the first 2 digits of my variable "code".


. g firsttwo = substr(string(var1),1,2)

. l

     +-----------------+
     | var1   firsttwo |
     |-----------------|
  1. |   11         11 |
  2. |  222         22 |
  3. | 3333         33 |
  4. | 4444         44 |
     +-----------------+

Kit

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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