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Re: st: RE: error 109
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Natalia Batista <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: error 109
Date
Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:26:28 -0200
thanks
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Natalia Batista
University of Sao Paulo at Ribeirao Preto
Department of Economics
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Citando Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
In your context -string()- maps numeric variables to string. It
takes a variable across the big divide. But if you're already
across, it is not needed and indeed illegal.
Your request needs to be rephrased. The idea of the first 8 numbers
of a string makes no sense to Stata. You want the first 8
characters, which no doubt are numeric characters in your case, but
that needs a different function.
Anyway, it should be easy. Try
gen id_v3 = substr(v3, 1, 8)
Nick
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Natalia Batista
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?
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