Re: st: y axis significant digits

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Well, I see in the help file that %#.#fc is a right justified comma format that 
is a fixed numeric format.  That means that %9.1fc should have a total width of 
9 (including punctuation) with 1 digit after the decimal (fixed part) and use 
commas in numbers greater than 999.  A few simple experiments using the display 
command will show you that it drops out the commas as the width expands to 9 and 
then goes to scientific notation after that.  I also see -- under the oh-so 
cryptically titled section "leading zero formats" -- that if I wanted leading 
zeros you would use "%09.1f".  I guess it doesn't spoon feed everything to you 
with examples, but it's easy to try them yourself interactively with -display-.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Witte" <eljefespeaks@yahoo.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: st: y axis significant digits



> Ummm--so do the numbers mean the amount of digits to be displayed?  Ummmm--  
> This isn't obvious from the format help file.  And it didn't stick a bunch of 
> zeros infront of my number either, since I used 9.  Ummmm
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Blasnik <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:00:51 PM
> Subject: Re: st: y axis significant digits
>
> Chris Witte wrote
>
> > ok, I found that I can use "format %9.1fc" to get one decimal point in my 
> > axis
> > values (took a guess from looking at the stata manuals)....so where do I find
> > more information as to what this "%9.1fc" means?
> ...
> Ummmm-- how about trying -help format-?
>
> Michael Blasnik
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