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st: error 109
From
Natalia Batista <[email protected]>
To
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: error 109
Date
Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:14:34 -0200
Hi Statalist
I´m tring to create a string variable (id_v3) from another string
variable (v3). But I want just the 8 first numbers. I tried the
following:
generate str id_v3 = string(v3,"%-08.0f")
By it did not worked. I got the error 109: type mismatch
How can I solve it?
Thanks
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Natalia Batista
University of Sao Paulo at Ribeirao Preto
Department of Economics
tel +55 16 3602 0506 (office)
fax +55 16 3633 4488
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