How to generate a string of repeated 0s like "00000" in STATA?

[smith Jason]

Hi, all,
I know that we can use STATA command gen new_variable="00000" to generate a new string variable, having 5 zeros in total.
However, I don't want to use this method to do the same work. Is there an alternative to do this in STATA like function or programming?

Thank you!

[Nick Cox]

I don't know about STATA (please read the FAQ Advice down to #18) but in Stata you can write

. gen new_variable= 5 * "0"

. di new_variable[1]
00000

This hasn't been possible since string variables were added, so if you have a very old version of Stata, it won't work.

[smith Jason]

Thank you for your kindly help. Honestly, I can not distinguish between STATA and Stata. Now that you pointed out this issue, I learned it.