Hello everyone,
I am looking for the following, a magic command which would do
something like this , it would create a STRING variable whose CONTENT
is the formatted value of some variable
Why do I need this ?
suppose I have
gen mydate=mdy(m,d,y)
( suppose m=1,d=1,y==2008 in obs 1 )
format %td mydate
gen str magicdate=magicalcommand( mydate )
Then magicalcommand would sense the format of mydate and make the
FIRST observation of magicdate to be 1Jan2008.
Suppose I have a variable j and format %9.5g j
and I only want j upto 2 decimal places then I do replace j =
round(j,.01) but due to precision storage probems I still have more
than 2 decimal places stored in j which stubbornly refuse to go away
even after the use of -float-
I simply do %format9.2f j
then do
gen str magicj=magicalcommand(j)
then i ACTUALLY have 2 decimal places in j.
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Why do I need this ? I need to output to an HTML file to make my
output colorful ( thanks to David Elliot's program here which does
90% of my work by making a table ) which I an unsuccessful at printing
from smcl , and when I write to HTML the ORIGNAL stuff and not it's
FORMAT needs to be the way I output it.
I wonder if such a user written file exists. I guess if such a
command does not exist I will have to learn to format HTML stuff but I
thought I might ask here first.
Thank you,
Ashim
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