Thank you, it worked!!!
Quoting Philip Ryan <[email protected]>:
> 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 [email protected] -----
> > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 07:41:39 -0500
> > From: [email protected]
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> > Subject: .dct for dataset without end-of-line delimiter: record too long?
> > To: [email protected]
> >
> >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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