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RE: st: Simple questions regarding time series data


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Simple questions regarding time series data
Date   Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:53:32 +0100

This answered the question well. But note also that it is not necessary
and not usually a good idea to put a single text string in a variable. 

di "The forecast GDP for 2009 is " 

illustrates technique. Check out the help for -display-. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Ulrich Kohler replied to Shruthi JAYARAM 

> 2. Is it possible to concatenate strings and numbers into a larger
string?
> For example, I have a variable y and I want to get the output "The
> forecasted GDP for 2009 is y". Can I write a command that intuitively
> carries out this: gen outputstring = paste("The forecast GDP for 2009
is",
> y)

. gen outputstring = "The forcast GDP for 2009 is " + string(y)

see -help operators- and -help string functions-.


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