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Re: st: SV: leading zeros in string format
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Michael Stewart <[email protected]>
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Re: st: SV: leading zeros in string format
Date
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:45:15 -0500
I have tried it and get
type mismatch
r(109);
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Petter Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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> 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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