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Re: st: Column Width Question
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Statalist Statalist <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Column Width Question
Date
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:41:31 -0600
On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Erika Kociolek <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a Stata dataset and the column width of the one of the string variables is extremely large. The length of the data within the column varies between 3 and 47 characters. There are other columns in the data with data of a similar length but the column widths are much smaller.
>
> The wide column makes it difficult to browse data - it takes up a large portion of the entire screen. Is there anything I can do to size down the column (or make it "fit" the data)?
Yes, assign a narrower format to the variable(s), e.g.,
format %24s myvar
-- Phil
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