Re: st: Padding zeros, writing functions

["Ari Friedman" <ari_friedman@harvard.edu>]

Thanks Svend.  That does what I was looking for.
And thanks Nick.  Your answer was (as always) most informative, if
depressing in this case.  User-written functions would be useful on those
rare occasions when Stata doesn't already have a built-in or user-written
way of achieving the desired effect.
Ari


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ari asked:
 
1) Is there a good padding function already written?
- -----------------------------------------------------------
 
Look here:
 
input ncode
1
15
387
end
tostring ncode , generate(scode) format(%03.0f)
list
     +---------------+
     | ncode   scode |
     |---------------|
  1. |     1     001 |
  2. |    15     015 |
  3. |   387     387 |
     +---------------+

 
Hope this helps
Svend


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