Re: st: problems with converting from numerical to string

[Philip Ryan <philip.ryan@adelaide.edu.au>]

gen str8 F = string(POP, "%8.0f")

My release 7 manuals are long gone, but I think that release 7 supported 
the formatting facility as the second, optional, argument of the -string()- 
function . Certainly, release 8 and 9 do.

see -help functions-

Phil

At 12:28 AM 11/06/2006 -0500, you wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
> I am Stata7 user.
> I have a problem with converting from numerical to string format.
> My variable POP is in the format  %8.0f. The numbers in POP are whole, the
> largest entries consist of 8 digits. My problem is that after I do
>
> gen str8 F=string(POP),
>
> some of the entries of F variable are displayed in scientific notation form
> like this:
>
>     F            POP
> 1.45e+07        14531529
>
> This only happens to entries consisting of 8 digits, the appearance of 
> entries
> consisiting of less than 8 digits is not altered by conversion.
>
> I would appreciate any help on how to deal with this problem.
> With best regards,
> Olena Stavrunova
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from olena-stavrunova@uiowa.edu -----
>     Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 07:41:39 -0500
>     From: olena-stavrunova@uiowa.edu
> Reply-To: olena-stavrunova@uiowa.edu
>  Subject: .dct for dataset without end-of-line delimiter: record too long?
>       To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> Dear Statalist,
> I apologize if this is a duplicate - I was not sure whether my first message
> went on correctly.
> I am Stata7 user.
> I am trying to infile data from the datafile which does not have end-of-line
> delimiters. My dictionary file looks like this:
>
> dictionary using mydata{
> _lrecl(8231)
> _column(1)
>           float caseid %5f "id"
> ...
>                        }
>
> I get the error message:
> "8231 not allowed
> dictionary invalid"
>
> By trying different # in _lrecl(#) I figured that # must be less than 7999 in
> order for my dictionary file to work.
> But the length of the line in my file is 8231.
> I would greatly appreciate any advise on how I can infile variables from this
> datafile.
> With best regards,
> Olena Stavrunova
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
>
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