That's more elegant, apart from the typo!
"%-%" should be "%-"
Nick
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Kit Baum
> Friedrich is correct: there is an extended-macro-function
> called format. Thus Nick's general-purpose program to make
> every string variable left-just (better then mine, in that it
> works on the whole dataset) can be written as
>
> ds, has(type string)
>
> foreach v in `r(varlist)' {
> local f : format `v'
> local ff : subinstr local f "%" "%-%"
> format `v' `ff'
> }
>
> No shorter, but more to the point.
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