Patrick wrote:
I generated one dataset in SAS and I would like to work in Stata. I
have Stat/Transfers 8.2 and I did the change. I used describe to see
the data and for my surprise they were in format string (all).
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My question is: which is the best solution to convert dateset to SAS
to Stata (more easy) that maintain the format of information - for
example 05100 is 05100 and not 5100. I never used stat/transfers but
in the first time the product of change is not good.
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05100 is a string; the corresponding numeric value is 5100. This is
the case in Stata, and I am pretty sure that it is in SAS, too.
You may, however, display leading zeros in lists:
format varname %05.0f
Hope this helps
Svend
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