perhaps the function, concat(varlist), located under -egen-??
type -findit egen- for more information...
cheers, clint
On 9 Mar 2005 at 13:20, J Bravo wrote:
> dear all,
>
> i have a data-set with unit- and year- string identifiers -
> respectively, clave2str and year2str.
>
> say that i want to create a new year-unit identifier, say clavestr, so
> that the first two characters of clavestr give me the year (from
> year2str) and the next 5 characters give me the unit (from clave2str)
>
> | clave2str year2str | clavestr
> |------------------|
> 100. | 1005 97 | 971005
> 101. | 1005 98 | 981005
> 102. | 1005 99 | 991005
> 103. | 1006 80 | 801006
> 104. | 1006 83 | 831006
> |------------------|
> 105. | 1006 86 | 861006
> 106. | 1006 89 | 891006
>
>
> any advice?
>
> thanks many.
>
> jb
>
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