Laura,
I think that the function - int(x) - should be what you're looking for.
Julian
Date sent: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:54:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: Laura Miller <[email protected]>
Subject: st: removing decimals
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> My apologies for bothering you all with such a simple query.
>
> I have calculated a variable which is the age of a subject when they
> were interviewed. However this variable has several decimal places. I
> wish to change this to the whole number of years. I have tried using
>
> format varname %2.0f
>
> but as the manuals state this doesn't affect the accuracy so some of
> the ages are rounding up. I only want complete years so need to round
> them all down (or looking at it another way, I just need to 'cut off'
> the decimal points). Could anyone tell me how can I do this?
>
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Laura
>
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