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Re: st: combining different storage types
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daniel klein <[email protected]>
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Re: st: combining different storage types
Date
Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:09:18 +0200
Edward,
note that "05" , as in your example "Germany05", is unlikely to be
hold in a numeric variable, since leading zeros are not stored.
Assuming that variable "year" has four digits you might want to change
Nick's third suggestion to read
. g ctryear = country + substr(string(year), 3, .)
Best
Daniel
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