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RE: st: How to make ID as 01 instead of 1
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: How to make ID as 01 instead of 1
Date
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:04:36 -0000
The thread is a little cold here, but this advice can be improved on any way.
If you want a string equivalent of a single-digit numeric identifier, then you can do it directly by
gen strid = "0" + string(id)
Firing up -tostring- is firing up a more general, fairly complicated command with hundreds of lines of code, and quite unnecessary here.
However, this solution is not good For multiple digit identifiers. In that case, use -string()- with a format argument or just change the format so that leading zeros are displayed. These points were probably made in the thread in December.
Nick
[email protected]
Hung Ðoàn Quang
You can try to use the following command
tostring ID, replace
gen strID = "0" + ID
It is hopeful that can help you.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Quang Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you show me how I can generate ID in the following manner: 01,
> 02..... instead of 1, 2, 3...?
>
> From the original data, I have ID in the form of 1, 2, ...... I then
> use the following commands:
>
> tostring ID, replace
> replace x = "01" if x=="1"
>
> There was a message "type mismatch".
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