In general a macro is a character string.
It could contain "2.78128" or "Fred Wolfe",
etc.
I guess you want to able to say something
like
. set localformat %7.2f
with also a stipulation that that be ignored
whenever the content is not numeric.
Is that right?
My guess is that StataCorp could
do that fairly easily. I just don't
think it would be particularly useful.
Nick
[email protected]
Fred Wolfe
> While we are on the subject, I'd like to see the ability to
> specify the
> format of macros generally (globally), with respect to
> leading 0s, so that
> one doesn't have to format each one individually.
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