Date:         Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:58:12 -0400
Reply-To:     msz03@albany.edu
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From:         Mike Zdeb <msz03@ALBANY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: reducing the length of numeric variable
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hi ... OK, let's beat this to death since I'm curious

given that the problem was ...

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My cov_4 variable looks like:  cov_4 2.3164977635316 3.1546584777797 4.4646674776444 5.1646466797979
I want it to look like:  cov4 2.316 3.154 4.464 5.164
I want to do this because I want to use the output file by some other software.
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I was wondering how the suggestion to use a format ("see the format statement.")
would work given that numbers are not ROUNDED
(for example, 3.1546584777797 is supposed to end up as 3.154)

I thought one would have to use a FLOOR or INT function to actually change the value of the variable
prior to writing to a file given that any W.D format would ROUND the value and there's no numeric format
I know of that truncates decimal places (though I'd be happy to be wrong about that)

as I said, just cirious

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