Re: st: Re: Deleting a cohort

["sara khan" <sarakhanum84@googlemail.com>]

You anticipated my problem. I missed the parens and it now works. Many thanks!

On 3/29/07, David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net> wrote:
> At 09:04 AM 3/29/2007, Sergiy wrote:
> >gen flag=0
> >bys ID WAVE: replace flag=1 if empstat[1]="emp"
> >keep if flag==1
>
> Sara may have gotten her solution by now, but, that should be
>  bys ID (WAVE): replace flag=1 if empstat[1]="emp"
>
> Note the parens around WAVE.  Otherwise, each record will be treated
> in isolation.  I've made this mistake many times.
> --David
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