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Re: st: Column Width Question


From   Erika Kociolek <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Column Width Question
Date   Tue, 7 Jan 2014 07:55:21 -0800

Thank you!

Erika

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Erika Kociolek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a Stata dataset and the column width of the one of the string variables is extremely large. The length of the data within the column varies between 3 and 47 characters. There are other columns in the data with data of a similar length but the column widths are much smaller.
>>
>> The wide column makes it difficult to browse data - it takes up a large portion of the entire screen. Is there anything I can do to size down the column (or make it "fit" the data)?
>
>
> Yes, assign a narrower format to the variable(s), e.g.,
>
>     format %24s myvar
>
>
> -- Phil
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