st: converting format

["Satyarth Kulshrestha" <satyarth@email.arizona.edu>]

hi,

i have to add "51" to all the id-codes in my dataset [variable "idcode" is
in the integer format]. can i convert it to string and add 51 at the end?

thanks,
Satyarth
Satyarth Kulshrestha
MS-Epi IDP, Graduate Research Assistant,
College of Public Health
University of Arizona

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