Re: st: RE: reading numbes with trailing minus sign

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Nick,
Thanks very much.  That's roughly what I was doing, except I had forgotten 
about the
substr(y,-1,1) construct.

-- David

At 05:03 PM 2/23/2005 +0000, Nick Cox wrote:

> I would read this in  as a string and then
>
> replace y = substr(y,-1,1) + substr(y,1,length(y)-1) if substr(y,-1,1) == "-"
> destring y, replace
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> David Kantor
>
> > Suppose I have raw data where minus signs are in a trailing
> > position. Thus,
> > for example, instead of
> > -12, you have
> > 12-
> [...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404
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