st: RE: Displaying values less than one with a zero in front of the comma

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

As an universal instruction: I believe not. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Seb Buechte
 
> is there anyway to force stata to generally display 0.5 
> instead of .5 ? 
> 
> I do not think that setting a fixed format with leading zeros like
> %08.2 is really the solution. Many times I just do not know in advance
> wether my calcs will return  values  less than 1 and greater than
> -1...I appreciate you help!
> 

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