Gen str14 newvar = string(var1,"%02.0f") + string(var1,"%05.0f") + string(var1,"%07.0f")
Hugh
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Hugh W. Davies, PhD
Assistant Professor & Graduate Advisor
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene,
University of British Columbia
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> Hello- I am pretty new to stata and would really appreciate some help with
> what seems like a pretty basic question.
>
> I need to concatenate three variables into 1, and all three may have
> leading zeros.
> Whenever I concatenate, the leading zero's are dropped.
>
> To be clear...
>
> If I have:
>
> var1=01
> var2=04956
> var3=0906730
>
> I would like to get a variable back that is: 01049560906730
>
> This is not what I am getting: instead I am getting 14956906730.
>
> I have formatted all my variables as string with the appropriate
> formats. For instance, for my variable 1, I have done format var1 %02s.
>
> They all look fine, and retain their leading zero's individually, but not
> once I concatenate.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> I really appreciate your help with this.
>
>
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