Re: st: basic question on generating a string variable

[Doug Owens <dowens@welchcon.com>]

g newid = year2str + clave2str

or if clave2str is not always of length 4 and you want to pad it to be 
length 4,

g newid = year2str +substr("0000",1,4-length(clave2str)) + clave2str




Doug Owens


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