Re: st: numeric to string - transform from 1 to 01?

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 09:30 AM 9/6/2007, Franco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a numeric variable, "ind" which goes from 1 to
> 20.
>
> I want to convert it into a string variable "indstr",
> that goes from 01 (as opposed to 0) to 20.
>
> How can I achieve this?
Try,
tostring ind, gen(newvar) format(%02.0f)

Note the use of the format option, and the leading-zero format.
See -help tostring- and -help format-.
--David

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