Re: st: alt to inlist?

[Danielle H Ferry <dferry@nber.org>]

Nick, Joseph - Thank you for your helpful comments. I stupidly did  
not put quotes around my strings. So that is why it was barking at me  
that they didn't exist.  The suggestion below is good - I will try this.

As for whether there is a better way to do what I want ... probably.  
I welcome any suggestions: I am reading in several datasets, each  
containing different economic series at the metropolitan level, but I  
want to keep data for only the top X metro areas. Metro areas are  
defined differently for different series' (i.e., Los Angeles could be  
represented as LAS or LAX depending on whether we are talking about  
MSA or CMSA). Rather than figure out which datasets use which  
definition for each metro area, I want it to be flexible - keep if  
msa==LAS | msa==LAX (except that I have a list of about 145 MSA names  
is list). Is there a better way of doing this?

--
Danielle H Ferry


On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Joseph Coveney wrote:


> You can use multiple instances
> of -inlist()-:
>
> keep if inlist(Z, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k) | ///
>  inlist(z, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u) | ///
>  inlist(z, . . . .)
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