Thanks everyone. All your comments were very helpful.
Alex
Alexander Quarshie, MD, MS
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>>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 07/01/03 02:21PM >>>
Alexander Quarshie, MD, MS
> Does anyone know a quick way in STATA to add leading zeros
> to a numeric variable (even if I have to convert it to a
> string, that would be okay).
> A typical example might be to convert the following numbers
> to a standard five-digit number with leading zeros:
> 2 --> 00002
> 33 --> 00033
> 473 --> 00473
> 59724 --> 59724
Display with leading zeros is a matter of format.
di %05.0f 2
A more fundamental change is
gen str5 s_foo = string(foo,"%05.0f")
Note that
. search leading zero
points to an FAQ
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/leading0.html
so all this is one command line away in Stata.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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