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st: SV: leading zeros in string format
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Petter Berg <[email protected]>
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st: SV: leading zeros in string format
Date
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:41:09 +0100
Mike if you have a fixed string length (in this case of 7) and just want to fill up with zeros you can use:
gen newstring = string(oldvar,"%07.0f")
Best,
Petter
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Skickat: den 8 februari 2013 20:24
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Ämne: st: leading zeros in string format
HI
I am trying to convert a string variable to a string variable with
fixed numbers
My string variable has following observations:
1223435
34567
345
I want to convert it to another string variable with leading zeros
1223435
0034567
0000345
format var "%07.0f" didnt work
Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
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