Re: st: RE: two-digit string variables

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Yet another approach:

replace x = string(real(x),"%02.0f")



--Nick Winter


At 08:00 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote:
> replace x="0"+x if length(x)==1
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alejandro Delafuente
> [mailto:alejandro.delafuente@st-antonys.oxford.ac.uk]
> Sent: 09 June 2005 12:44
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: two-digit string variables
>
>
> Hi statalisters,
> 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
>
> Many thanks for any help!
>
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