st: Re: Re: Splitting numeric values

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

No you can't -- if you recast as an int, you will lose many more digits of 
accuracy -- including all of the digits you want to extract.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Keesman" <sales@survey-design.com.au>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 12:13 PM
Subject: st: Re: Splitting numeric values



> Hi,
>
> You can recast as an integer  eg.
>
> ***************************
> clear
>
> input a
>
> 610102001001010300
>
> end
>
> recast int a, force
>
> d
>
> tostring a, replace
>
> d
>
> ***************************
>
> Regards
>
> Karl
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