Re: st: RE: error 109

[Natalia Batista <nbatista@usp.br>]

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Citando Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>:

> In your context -string()- maps numeric variables to string. It  
> takes a variable across the big divide. But if you're already  
> across, it is not needed and indeed illegal.
> Your request needs to be rephrased. The idea of the first 8 numbers  
> of a string makes no sense to Stata. You want the first 8  
> characters, which no doubt are numeric characters in your case, but  
> that needs a different function.
> Anyway, it should be easy. Try
>
> gen id_v3 = substr(v3, 1, 8)
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Natalia Batista
>
> I´m tring to create a string variable (id_v3) from another string
> variable (v3). But I want just the 8 first numbers. I tried the
> following:
> generate str id_v3 = string(v3,"%-08.0f")
>
> By it did not worked. I got the error 109: type mismatch
>
> How can I solve it?
>
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