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Re: st: .tab list showing numbers in exponential form. Can that be changed?
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Muhammad Anees <[email protected]>
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Re: st: .tab list showing numbers in exponential form. Can that be changed?
Date
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:16:14 +0500
sorry, yourvariable is pid as above stated.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Muhammad Anees <[email protected]> wrote:
> For my
> format %5.0g pid
> I have the data in editor as 1.0e+07
> and the same pid is 10016872.
> for
> format %12.0g yourvariable
> So give it a try and check what happens.
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Ben Hoen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have ids for a table that are 8 or 9 digits (format long%12.0g) (e.g.,
>> "72009070" of " "720110701".
>>
>> To quickly inspect what ids are present I use .tab <id>. The table shows
>> those ids using exponential notation (e.g., "7.20e+07") for all ids, and
>> therefore I cannot differentiate which is which.
>>
>> Is there a way to force the table to list the ids in non-exponential form?
>> Alternatively, can I use another command to do the same thing.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> Ben Hoen
>> Principal Research Associate
>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>> Office: 845-758-1896
>> Cell: 718-812-7589
>> [email protected]
>> http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/emp/staff/hoen.html
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>>
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www.aneconomist.com
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