I am not aware that you can. I'd just divide by
10 inside Stata. Any downside to that?
Nick
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Joseph McCrary
>
> I'm reading in a text file using an infix statment. Some of
> my variables
> (the nce variables) occupy 3 columns but have an implied
> decimal between
> the 2nd and 3rd columns. How do I correctly specify this in my infix
> statement?
>
> Here's the a snippet of the code I'm using:
>
> infix
> record 1-2
> str studln 3-13
> str studfn 14-22
> str sudmi 23
> str studnum 33-42
> <much stuff deleted>
> nce_str1 3450-3452
> nce_str2 3453-3455
> nce_str3 3456-3458
> nce_str4 3459-3461
> nce_str5 3462-3464
> nce_str6 3465-3467
> nce_str7 3468-3470
> nce_str8 3471-3473
> nce_str9 3474-3476
> nce_str10 3477-3479
> nce_str11 3480-3482
> nce_str12 3483-3485
> nce_str13 3486-3488
> nce_str14 3489-3491
> nce_str15 3492-3494
> nce_str16 3495-3497
> nce_str17 3498-3500
> nce_str18 3501-3503
> nce_str19 3504-3506
> nce_str20 3507-3509
> nce_str21 3510-3512
> nce_str22 3513-3515
> nce_str23 3516-3518
> nce_str24 3519-3521
> nce_str25 3522-3524
> nce_str26 3525-3527
> nce_str27 3528-3530
> nce_str28 3531-3533
> nce_str29 3534-3536
> nce_str30 3537-3539
> using "c:\work\stanford\baltimore.txt";
>
> Thank you.
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