Displaying values with one decimal place, including zeros

[Kathy Sharp]

Hello! This may seem basic but I have done my best to read all documentation and search the community. I would like to have Stata display output values with one decimal place, even if that would be a zero. For example, if the values are
4
5
0
1.25
3.5
1
I would want to have it display
4.0
5.0
0.0
1.3
3.5
1.0

I have used both numeric formats (example: format %9.1g var_name) and the round() function (example: replace var_name = round(var_name, 0.1)) and can get both to work, but neither forces a zero to display after the decimal. Thanks for your consideration.

[MH Sandoval]

Hi Kathy

Try using . format var_name %8.1f

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

You're looking for the fixed-decimal format (%#.#f).

input double x
4
5
0
1.25
3.5
1
end

format %9.1f x
list

Relevant output:

     +-----+
     |   x |
     |-----|
  1. | 4.0 |
  2. | 5.0 |
  3. | 0.0 |
  4. | 1.2 |
  5. | 3.5 |
     |-----|
  6. | 1.0 |
     +-----+

[Kathy Sharp]

Amazing! Thank you both. I thought I had tried that already but this time it worked.