Nick,
thank you for your prompt reply. yes, it appears i neglected to put the
delimiter ... it works fine now but I still have my original problem of forcing
the display format to be %2.0f.
here is the context: I am working with a household survery on child labor force.
I am trying to generate a unique id by concatenating a few string variables. the
reason I am creating the unique id is so that i can merge the data set with
anoterh survey on labor force from the same country. The variables (cl01 thru
cl08) originally came in numeric format (with a display format of %2.0f). What I
am trying to do is convert these variables to string variables while keeping the
display format.
unfortunately, the display format that I get when i convert to string is %9.s
this is what my do file looks like:
tostring cl01-cl08, replace force;
gen id1=real(cl01); format id1 %02.0f;
gen id2=real(cl02); format id2 %02.0f;
gen id3=real(cl03); format id3 %02.0f;
gen id4=real(cl04); format id4 %02.0f;
gen id5=real(cl05); format id5 %02.0f;
gen id6=real(cl06); format id6 %03.0f;
gen id7=real(cl07); format id7 %02.0f;
gen id8=real(cl08); format id8 %02.0f;
tostring id1-id8, replace usedisplayformat;
egen hhid=concat(id1 id2 id3 id4 id5 id6 id7 id8);
any advice is appreciated
M
Mirafe Gebriel Marcos
"Nick Cox"
<[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>
Sent by: cc:
owner-statalist@hsphsun2. Subject: st: RE: using the 'real' command
harvard.edu
12/08/2004 01:19 PM
Please respond to
statalist
You _need_ the () to invoke the -real()- function
(it's not a command).
Your code is not obviously illegal, assuming
a prior
#delimit ;
and a posterior
;
I guess we need more context to comment helpfully.
Nick
[email protected]
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> I am trying to convert a string variable to a numeric
> variable so that I can
> specify the display format, but I get an error message saying
> it can't recognize
> the ( ), i.e., the parenthesis. can anyone help?
>
> gen id1=real(cl01); format id1 %02.0f
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