Phillip,
Michael Blasnik suggested -subinstr- to me off the list.
Any incorrect running of it was down to me!
Thanks for your reply. I didn't try -nolabel- of any of your other
solutions, so I'll try them.
C.
> I ran Joseph's code against Clive's data and it appeared to deliver what
> Clive wants (if I understand Clive correctly).
>
> Clive, did you -list- the data resulting from Joseph's code with the
> -nolabel- option, to show the real, underlying form of the data ?
>
> I have not seen Michael Blasnik's contribution to this thread on the list,
> so I cannot comment on details, but note that -subinstr() is a *function*,
> not a command, so Stata quite rightly objects if you type:
>
> . subinstr(...)
>
> apart form the incorrect specification of the argument that you supplied.
> (see help strfun)
>
> Even if used correctly as a function < gen newvar = subinstr(...) > I
> think the complexity of the code would probably equal or exceed that of
> Joseph's suggestion, as you might need to use some nested -cond()-
> functions to sequentially look at the string (is it "c" or "d" or l" or
> "n"
> ?) and make the appropriate substitution, and you will still need to loop
> through the party? variables.
>
>
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> At 12:42 AM 28/01/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>>Joseph Coveney wrote:
>>
>> > How about something like this?
>> >
>> > label define Parties 1 c 2 d 3 l 4 n
>> > forvalues i = 1/4 {
>> > encode party`i', generate(Party`i') label(Parties)
>> > drop party`i'
>> > rename Party`i' party`i'
>> > }
>>
>>OK, it ran, but the end-result still displays letters rather than the
>>numeric (and real) values I want them to represent.
>>
>>I should be a bit more specific in explaining what I've tried to overcome
>>this difficulty (I'm on v8.2). I've used -encode-, as in
>>
>>. encode party1, gen(winner)
>>
>>but this merely produced variables with the same characters. Stata won't
>>accept a simple -recode- such as
>>
>>. recode party c=1
>>
>>Michael Blasnik did suggest -subinstr-, but I couldn't work out how to
>>action this command. Every time I tried it, including
>>
>>. subinstr(c,l,d,1,2,3)
>>
>>I kept getting an 'unrecognized command' error (oddly). There has to be a
>>simple solution to this simple problem!
>>
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