Laura Gibbons wrote:
I have a program that prepares data (and code) for a DOS-based program.
I need a line above the actual data that is of the form:
NPKY XXXX
with the data below, so it looks like:
NPKY XXXX
10000000011234
10000000022398
...
etc.
I had done this by creating a one line tempfile with a string variable
with value "NPKY XXXX" and appending the data file to that file.
Because this first line is in string format, I had to -tostring- the data
as well. No problem until a user tried a file with 90,000 different
id's;more than the 65,000+ that tostring allows.
Is there a way to generate the header and the data and concatonate them
without using append? This way I could keep the id's in numeric
format.
Or a way to work around the tostring limitation?
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Where did you see that -tostring- has such a limitation?
Joseph Coveney
. clear
. set obs 90000
obs was 0, now 90000
. generate double ID = 10000000000000 + _n
. format ID %14.0f
. tostring ID, generate(id) format(%14.0f)
id generated as str14
. list in -3/l, noobs
+---------------------------------+
| ID id |
|---------------------------------|
| 10000000089998 10000000089998 |
| 10000000089999 10000000089999 |
| 10000000090000 10000000090000 |
+---------------------------------+
. list in 1/3, noobs
+---------------------------------+
| ID id |
|---------------------------------|
| 10000000000001 10000000000001 |
| 10000000000002 10000000000002 |
| 10000000000003 10000000000003 |
+---------------------------------+
. isid id
.
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