Michael wrote:
Does anyone have an easy way to identify the leading digit for each
entry in a diverse data set other than a series of inequality filters?
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If you convert numbers to strings it is easy to identify the first
digit, as shown here:
clear
set obs 100
gen x = int(1000*uniform())
gen str10 xstr = string(x , "%6.0f")
gen strx1 = substr(xstr,1,1)
destring strx1 , generate(x1)
Hope this helps
Svend
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