Get rid of the space after the leading quote?

[Roman Mostazir]

Hi all,

Please see the graph below and the example codes. In the 'note' option in my codes, I have not kept any space but the graph is being produced with large space in the note "Overall mean±SD" (underlined red thick line). Is there any way of getting rid of the space that's being produced by the leading quote?

sysuse auto, clear

qui su mpg
loc  m : di %12.0f r(mean)
loc sd : di %12.0f r(sd)
    #delimit ;
        twoway (scatter mpg weight) ||
        (lfit mpg weight),
        yline(`m', lpatt(--))
        note("Overall mean±SD:`m'(±`sd')")
    ;
    #delimit cr

[Nick Cox]

Your purpose is rounding to integers and even

 
 loc  m : di %1.0f r(mean)

should work fine.

. di %1.0f 123456.789
123457

[Roman Mostazir]

Of course it is!! How stupid I am. Thanks Nick. I was thinking it is the leading quote that is trailing the space but it is the number format.