st: RE: precision Problem taking string from double var

[<Stefan.Gawrich@hlpug.hessen.de>]

Thanks Maarten and Nick!

Creating an integer var is not so good in this special case because these files are huge already.
Formatting the string output "%4.2" works fine. 

Doubles have 16 digits precision but without -format- option the -string- function does not follow that.


Example:


clear
set obs 2
gen double x = 45.0000049 if _n == 1
replace x = 45.0000050 if _n == 2
gen string = string(x)
gen str2 y =substr(string(x),4,2)
gen str2 z =substr(string(x, "%4.2f"),4,2)
br



Thanks again

Stefan 






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