st: table, format

["Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>]

Dear statalist,

I wonder, why the table command does ignore my format settings.
What I want to see in the table is, for instance, 1,210,000,000 instead 
of 1.2e9.
What is it that is needed to be changed.
Cheers
Hans

.  #delimit ;
.  table eins [iw=phrfk], c(sum uni sum bafd sum bafj sum bafjahr) 
format(%9.2f) ;

------------------------------------------------------------------
     eins |     sum(uni)     sum(bafd)     sum(bafj)  sum(bafjahr)
----------+-------------------------------------------------------
        1 |     1.86e+06     259604.94      9.79e+08      1.21e+09
------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hans J. Baumgartner
DIW Berlin
German Institute for Economic Research
Dept. Public Economics
K�nigin-Luise-Str. 5; 14195 Berlin; Germany
Tel.: +49/30/89789-307; Fax.: +49/30/89789-114
http://www.diw.de
http://www.hansbaumgartner.de


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