Many thanks for your help!
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writes:
> . 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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Alejandro de la Fuente
QEH/Department of International Development
Oxford University
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