Recently, a poster posted a question about converting a long string which contained "numeric" data to numeric. I recently had the same problem and eventually solved it. While trying to solve my problem, I looked at inputting large integers and came across the following
. set obs 1
. gen x=1234567890
. format x %15.0g
. list
+------------+
| x |
|------------|
1. | 1234567936 |
+------------+
Is there some limit on the size of integers (answer: of course there is) but why doesn't Stata give me some sort of warning message?
Joseph
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