There is an easy way to change commas to decimals and vice versa:
set dp comma
or
set dp period
It can also be changed permanently by adding the option , permanently
.
In order to set a limit for the number of decimal places, one simply has to set the format. For the list
command of a variable wage
, one would normally type
list wage
which gives lots of decimal places, depending on the definition of the variable. In order to restrict it to (say) 2 decimal places, one would type
format wage %9.2fc
or (for using comma):
format wage %9,2fc
The result can be seen by entering: list wage
which should display the correctly formatted numbers.
There are lots of other ways to format numbers. For a general overview, press help format
.
To the best of my knowledge, this formats are not directly applicable to statistics like sum
or regression output. Check the blog-entries for exporting this information. Many export commands support formatting of numbers (see e.g. here).
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