I'm sorry for confusing the issue by using newvar=44 as an example. I
was just showing how many separate categories I would need to create by
doing it manually versus if I could just create a single category
newvar=1 and code something like this... replace newvar=1 if var1
=="71600/71699" | var2=="71600/71699" | var3=="71600/71699" |
var4=="71600/71699"
(0 changes made).
I tried destring before and for some reason, had lost a tremendous
amount of observations within the string variables. I'll revisit that
again on some practice dataset! Thank you for the optional coding -
I'll try that to see if it works.
Thanks for the help!
Suzy
At 01:35 PM 6/25/2005 -0400, Suzy wrote:
replace newvar=1 if var1 =="71600/71699" | var2=="71600/71699" |
var3=="71600/71699" | var4=="71600/71699"
(0 changes made)
But no changes occurred, which is impossible.
I'm not sure if this would work but it seems like you need to rework your
quote marks, e.g.
replace newvar=1 if var1 =="71600"/"71699" etc.
Even so, I'm not clear on how your 2 pieces of code are supposed to be
equivalent, i.e. the first snippet sets newvar to 44 and the 2nd snippet
sets it to 1.
Also I wonder if your life would be easier if you used the -destring-
command to create numeric versions of these string variables; see the help
for destring.
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Suzy wrote:
Dear members:
I created a new variable (newvar) that is supposed to be a collection
of sequential values from different string variables. The values that
are included in the new variable go from 71600 to 71699. I've been
doing it manually for hours- replacing value after value. see example
for value # 71623:
replace newvar=44 if var1 =="71623" | var2=="71623" | var33=="71623" |
var4=="71623"
(10 real changes made)
I tried to do it this way - see example:
replace newvar=1 if var1 =="71600/71699" | var2=="71600/71699" |
var3=="71600/71699" | var4=="71600/71699"
(0 changes made)
But no changes occurred, which is impossible.
I'm hoping there is a simple and quick syntax for what I'd like to do.
Ideally if newvar =1 with all the values from 71600 t0 71699 located
from the existing variables (1-4) included in newvar - then that
would be less painful than what I've been doing.
Any simple solution?? explicit code is appreciated!!
Thanks,
Suzy
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