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st: RE: help on expanding data


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: help on expanding data
Date   Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:43:25 -0000

expand 3 if  services == "ALL"

bysort customer (services) : 
	replace services = word("1DA 2DA 3DS", _n) if services == "ALL"

Nick 
[email protected] 

MITRA PINAKI
 
> I have a data set like the following:
> Customer	Services	Rate
> xx1		1DA		.50
> xx1		2DA		.75
> xx2		ALL		.30
> xx3		2DA		.40
> xx3		3DS		.60
> and so on.
> 
> The maximum combination of services can be (1DA, 2DA, 3DS) 
> and when the
> services is "ALL", I need the data set to be expanded in 1DA, 2DA, 3DS
> with the same rate. So for customer xx2, it needs to look like:
> 
> Customer	Services	Rate
> xx2		1DA		.30
> xx2		2DA		.30
> xx2		3DS		.30
> while all other information for other customers remains same. 

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