If you look at the help for -string()-
you will see that the function can
take one or two arguments. If you
don't provide the second argument,
a format, then Stata will necessarily
use a default format. The answer may
not indeed not be what you want.
I guess that you want every digit shown explicitly.
disp string(10000000, "%12.0f")
is one way of doing that. In other circumstances,
some other g or f format may be what you want.
Nick
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Lee Chuntao
> I accidentally find that the following line returns a not
> wanted results
> in my computer. Can u tell me what is the reason?
>
> . disp string(12000000078)
> 1.20e+10
>
> . disp string(00000000)
> 0
>
> . disp string(10000000)
> 1.00e+07
>
>
> . disp string(1000)
> 1000
>
> . disp string(10000)
> 10000
>
> . disp string(100000)
> 100000
>
> . disp string(1000000)
> 1000000
>
> . disp string(10000000)
> 1.00e+07
>
> BTW, I use Stata 7.0 SE.
>
> the display is not what i expected when the number is more
> than 7 digits
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