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Re: st: tostring for large double type variables?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: tostring for large double type variables?
Date
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:47:22 +0100
As its original author, I am not clear that this is a good use of
-tostring-, but its -format()- option offers in principle what you
seek.
You might get better advice if you said more about the data and quite
how this strange situation occurs. The bottom line is that what you
intend to do with the variable should have most influence on how it is stored.
At the moment I'm having real difficulty imagining a measurement
process that yields 45 digits. Is there a decimal point? Are these
"numbers" just identifiers of some kind?
Nick
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Paul Burkander <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm appending files over multiple years where the variable type
> changes over time. I have a variable that's a long string of numbers
> (about 45 numbers) in some years, but which is stored as double in
> other years. I'd like to be able to store the variable as either a
> string or double in the appended file, but I can't figure out a way to
> use the tostring command that doesn't truncate the double variable.
>
> Is there an easy way to preserve the information and string the variable?
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