Re: st: missing values with outsheet/outfile

[Joseph Coveney <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Jean-Benoit Hardouin wrote:

how can I obtain a point (.) instead a blank in the text file 
with -outsheet- or -outfile- for a numerical variable ?

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You can use -tostring- just prior to -outsheet- in order to create a string
variable that contains a point whereever the numeric variable was missing.

Joseph Coveney

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