There are several ways it can be done. For example, with a macro foo that is numeric we could do this:
local words "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten"
local bar "`foo'"
forval i = 1/10 {
if "`foo'" == "`i'" local bar : word `i' of words
}
di "`bar'"
You could use similar logic with a variable. Clearly you would to use a string variable as result.
Alternatively, define value labels.
Alternatively, use -subinstr()-.
Nick
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Jan Sauermann
I use Stata to store certain numbers in text-files in order to include
these in the text of my Latex-file (which is pretty handy, by the
way).
Some numbers (integers only) are pretty small, say 2. Is there a way
to convert a number "2" into a string with content "two" in Stata?
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