Thanks; although in this case I fiddled
around until I found something that works.
The most evident issues are
1. The use of the
g format e.g. %5.0g. I think of "5" (in
this example) as being a recommendation.
g tries to be really smart on your behalf,
but it can't always read your mind.
In %5.0f "5" is a stronger recommendation.
2. Taking control by mapping something
to a string. Once Stata thinks it has
a string, it takes it literally. (What
else?)
StataCorp, especially Bill Gould, who
put a lot of work relatively recently into the
-format- code, may want to say more.
Nick
[email protected]
David Kantor
>
> At 04:23 PM 4/29/2004 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
> >Try something like
> >
> > tempfile foo
> > tempname bar
> > file open `bar' using `foo', write
> > forval i = 1/10 {
> > local val : di %5.0f `i'
> > file write `bar' _n "`val'"
> > }
> > file close `bar'
> >
> >Nick
> >[email protected]
> >[...]
>
> Thanks very much, Nick. I suspected there would be a better
> solution, and
> that you would be the one who knew it..
> -- David
>
> David Kantor
> Institute for Policy Studies
> Johns Hopkins University
> [email protected]
> 410-516-5404
>
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