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From | Petter Berg <pbe@copenhageneconomics.com> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | SV: st: SV: leading zeros in string format |
Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:57:08 +0100 |
That's probably because you have a string to start with. Start by destringing it. ________________________________________ Från: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] för Michael Stewart [michaelstewartresearch@gmail.com] Skickat: den 8 februari 2013 20:45 Till: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Ämne: Re: st: SV: leading zeros in string format I have tried it and get type mismatch r(109); On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Petter Berg <pbe@copenhageneconomics.com> wrote: > Mike if you have a fixed string length (in this case of 7) and just want to fill up with zeros you can use: > gen newstring = string(oldvar,"%07.0f") > > Best, > Petter > ________________________________________ > Från: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] för Michael Stewart [michaelstewartresearch@gmail.com] > Skickat: den 8 februari 2013 20:24 > Till: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > Ämne: st: leading zeros in string format > > HI > I am trying to convert a string variable to a string variable with > fixed numbers > > My string variable has following observations: > 1223435 > 34567 > 345 > > I want to convert it to another string variable with leading zeros > 1223435 > 0034567 > 0000345 > > format var "%07.0f" didnt work > > Thank you , > Yours Sincerely, > Mike. > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ -- Thank you , Yours Sincerely, Mike. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/