Re: st: two-digit string variables

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

. replace x = "0" + x if length(x) == 1

Alejandro Delafuente

I have a string variable with two-digit and one-digit values. How can I 
tell Stata to place zeros before those one-digit values so that I end up 
with two digits in all cases always. For instance,
x          x(desired)
34           34
3            03
25           25

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