st: Re: Selecting observations using another file/datset

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Why don't you want to use the merge command?  It is by far the most 
straightforward solution.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MA V" <ma_v@hotmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 5:47 PM
Subject: st: Selecting observations using another file/datset



> Hi,
> Is there an easy way of keeping only the observations in one file (table) 
> that are present in another file?
> For example, if I have a file with date, names, height and weigth
>
> date names height weight
> 1     Ann ... ...
> 2    Ann ... ...
> .... ...
> T Ann ... ...
> 1  Bob ... ...
> 2 Bob ... ...
> ...
>
> and I want to keep only the observations for the names that are listed in 
> a separate file, can I do this without using the merge command?
> I would appreciate your help on this.
> Thanks,
> MA
>
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