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Re: st: RE: dropping integers from id variable


From   marcos stata <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: dropping integers from id variable
Date   Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:54:29 +0100

Many thanks Ben!

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ben Hoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I assume they are not strings, but rather numbers, therefore you could try:
>
> . tostring id2, replace
> . replace id2=subinstr(id2,"0","",.)
>
> If they are strings then you could use only the second line.
>
> Ben
>
> Ben Hoen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marcos stata
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 9:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: dropping integers from id variable
>
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I need to merge two datasets. The problem I have is that one the id
> of the master contains zeros (id2) and the other does not (id1). For
> example, for
> one observation I have: id1 = 718258, and id2 710820050008. My basic
> question is: how can I get rid of the zeros of id2 so that I can do a
> one-to-one merge using the id variables? Which is the function I need to
> use?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marcos
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