Thanks Johannes and Ashim. The suggestions were great. I thought there could be a command to just do this without going through manipulations.
Regards
John
--- On Thu, 4/9/08, Johannes Geyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Johannes Geyer <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: How to append two columns
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 4 September, 2008, 12:53 PM
> You could generate strings from your numeric variables,
> add them together and convert the string back to numeric:
>
> *******************
> clear
> set obs 10
> gen x = _n * 1000
> gen y = _n
>
> tostring x, generate(a)
> tostring y, generate(b)
> gen z = a + b
> destring z, replace
>
> ******************************
>
> Johannes
>
>
> [email protected] schrieb am 04/09/2008
> 11:36:48:
>
> > A crude way would be to multiply the 1st column by 10
> and add the 2nd
> > column to it ?
> >
> > Ashim
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:03 PM, John Ataguba
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Dear members,
> > >
> > > I am trying to append two colums in stata and I
> was wondering if
> > this is possible. Basically I have data in the
> following way
> > >
> > > UQNo PersonNo
> > > 100012 1
> > > 100012 2
> > > 100012 3
> > > 100024 1
> > > 100024 2
> > > 100019 1
> > > 100019 2
> > > 100019 3
> > > 100055 1
> > > 100075 1
> > > 100075 2
> > >
> > > And I want to generate a new variable that will
> look like
> > >
> > > UQNoP
> > > 1000121
> > > 1000122
> > > 1000123
> > > 1000241
> > > 1000242
> > > 1000191
> > > 1000192
> > > 1000193
> > > 1000551
> > > 1000751
> > > 1000752
> > >
> > > Any suggestion will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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