The misleading title of this thread is being perpetuated.
The -eqany()- function of -egen- has never been part
of -egenmore-, as Jennifer did point out earlier in a
correction. I believe that someone posed a problem
on Statalist which led to its first being written by myself
in about 1998. It was formally published as part of another package,
called -egenodd-, in STB-50 and then revised in
STB-57, and then incorporated officially in Stata 7.
In Stata 9, as part of a tidying-up of names by StataCorp provoked
by Svend Juul's witty criticisms, it was renamed -anymatch()-.
To repeat, Jennifer's question was whether there is a problem
with this -egen- function, and the short answer is No.
Another way to see this is to note
that you can look directly at the code, as -egen-
functions are all written in Stata. You need one little
detail, that -egen- function -foo()- will be defined by a
program in file _gfoo.ado. Thus, the prefix is always
_g.
Now in Stata 9 there is an especially easy way to
do this:
. viewsource _ganymatch.ado
finds the file and opens it up in the Viewer. There
is more on -viewsource- in Stata Tip 30
"May the source be with you", which is in
Stata Journal 6(1).
In earlier versions of Stata, you just need
to find the file (e.g. with -findfile- or
-which-) and open it up with the Viewer
or an editor.
Here is the function code. The key point is
that the -numlist- fed to -values()- is interpreted
as part of the -syntax- statement. Hence if there
were a problem with different kinds of numlists, it
lies with -syntax-. As it happens, there is no such
problem.
*! version 1.0.0 04oct2004
program define _ganymatch
version 6.0, missing
gettoken type 0 : 0
gettoken g 0 : 0
gettoken eqs 0 : 0
syntax varlist(min=1 numeric) [if] [in], /*
*/ Values(numlist int) [BY(string)]
if `"`by'"' != "" {
_egennoby anymatch() `"`by'"'
}
tempvar touse
mark `touse' `if' `in'
tokenize `varlist'
local nvars : word count `varlist'
local nnum : word count `values'
quietly {
gen byte `g' = 0 /* ignore user-supplied `type' */
forval i = 1 / `nvars' {
forval j = 1 / `nnum' {
local nj : word `j' of `values'
replace `g' = 1 if ``i'' == `nj' & `touse'
}
}
}
if length("`varlist'") >= 69 {
note `g' : `varlist' == `values'
label var `g' "see notes"
}
else if length("`varlist' == `values'") > 80 {
note `g' : `varlist' == `values'
label var `g' "`varlist': see notes"
}
else {
label var `g' "`varlist' == `values'"
}
end
Nick
[email protected]
Marino, Jennifer
> Thanks very much for the explanation - I'm sorry for the delay in my
> thanks, but I was out of town.
>
> I did consult -help numlist- and [U]14.1.8 before writing, I promise,
> but plain failed to see that the interval was dictated by the number
> listed before the range for 'to' and ':'. Boneheaded, indeed
> - I think I
> misread all the pertinent examples because I expected all but the
> explicit interval definition (e.g. 1[10]100) to be simple range
> delimiters.
>
> Thank you again.
Scott Merryman
> > Aren't these supposed to be the same?
> >
>
> No. For the ":" and "to" syntax, the preceding number specify the
> interval used in constructing the number list.
>
> For example:
>
> 10 15 to 25 == 10, 15, 20, 25
>
> which is different than
>
> 10 15/25 == 10 15, 16, 17,..
>
> -help numlist- has many more examples.
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