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| From | "Dudekula, Anwar" <dudekulaan@upmc.edu> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: How to convert number format |
| Date | Fri, 4 Nov 2011 03:20:05 +0000 |
HI , I apologize for the asking this question I have a list of numbers as observations for a variable like 20 43 200 298 888 4619 5311 5312 20210 20218 How do I convert the numbers more than 3 digits(> 999) to have decimal after the third digit , i.e., Convert 4619 -->461.9;convert 5311-->531.1; 20210-->201.10;20218-->202.18 and leave the two digit and three digit numbers as they are i.e., leave 20,43,298 etc as they are Thanks Anwar * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/