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st: RE: RE: comas in numbrers


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: comas in numbrers
Date   Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:51:02 +0100

Comas are beyond my expertise. On commas, see 

SJ-8-2  dm0036  .  Stata tip 61: Decimal commas in results output & data
input
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N.
J. Cox
        Q2/08   SJ 8(2):293--294                                 (no
commands)
        tip on using commas as decimal separators for output
        and input

Nick 
[email protected] 

Victor M. Zammit

how do you handle numbers with a coma to indicate thousands?

 drop _all

 input a

a
1. 2,345
2. 213
3. 34,456
4. 458
5. end

.
end of do-file

 l

+-----+
a
-----
1.    2
2.  213
3.   34
4.  458
+-----+


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