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Re: st: new string variable which has the formatted value of a variable


From   "Ashim Kapoor" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: new string variable which has the formatted value of a variable
Date   Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:27:31 +0530

This is great. Will do part of what I what . I still need the magic
command to do magic on dates.

Thank you ,
Ashim

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not sure about dates, but for your second example you can do the following....
>
> gen str magicj = string(round(j, .01))
>
> Neil
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