Re: st: new string variable which has the formatted value of a variable

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

I think -tostring- will work with the -format()- option.
Or, if you want to call mata you can use -sprintf()-.

hope this helps,
Jeph


Ashim Kapoor wrote:
> This is great. Will do part of what I what . I still need the magic
> command to do magic on dates.
>
> Thank you ,
> Ashim
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure about dates, but for your second example you can do the following....
> >
> > gen str magicj = string(round(j, .01))
> >
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