Re: st: RE: file write vs. display; trimming; string()

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

At 04:23 PM 4/29/2004 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
> Try something like
>
>         tempfile foo
>         tempname bar
>         file open `bar' using `foo', write
>         forval i = 1/10 {
>                 local val : di %5.0f `i'
>                 file write `bar' _n "`val'"
>         }
>         file close `bar'
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> [...]
Thanks very much, Nick.  I suspected there would be a better solution, and 
that you would be the one who knew it..
-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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