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Re: st: new string variable which has the formatted value of a variable


From   "Neil Shephard" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: new string variable which has the formatted value of a variable
Date   Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:51:48 +0000

Not sure about dates, but for your second example you can do the following....

gen str magicj = string(round(j, .01))

Neil
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