st: RE: formatting of a %td variable in over() in graphs

["Airey, David C" <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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Thank you very much!

I never used the string(n,s) function. That's useful. Now I know.


String function

    string(n)
       Domain:       -8e+307 to 8e+307 and missing
       Range:        strings
       Description:  returns n converted to a string:
                         string(4)+"F" = "4F"
                         string(1234567) = "1234567"
                         string(12345678) = "1.23e+07"
                         string(.) = "."

    string(n,s)
       Domain n:     -8e+307 to 8e+307 and missing
       Domain s:     strings containing %fmt numeric display format
       Range:        strings
       Description:  returns n converted to a string:
                         string(4,"%9.2f") = "4.00"
                         string(123456789,"%11.0g") = "123456789"
                         string(123456789,"%13.0gc" = "123,456,789"
                         string(0,"%td") = "01jan1960"
                         string(225,"%tq") = "2016q2"
                         string(225,"not a format") = ""


> You can always put the thing through the -string()- function beforehand,
> though:
> 
> *************
> sysuse auto, clear
> keep in 1/10
> gen day=18320+_n
> form day %td
> gen day2=string(day, "%td")
> graph bar (mean) price, over(day2, label(angle(forty_five)))
> *************
> 
> 
> HTH
> Martin
> 
> 

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