st: Percent (and other) formats

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Of course, down this road lies some sort of completely generic format syntax.

Somethign like:

 %{"("{@*100}3.2f"%)"}

might generate
  (32.5%)

for the value 0.325.

And so on.

Then again, Excel's version of this is so complex that I never bothered to 
figure it out.

*That* might be very useful for coding routines to output formatted tables 
and the like.  But probably not worth the investment by Stata...

--Nick





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