Re: st: basic if statement

[Keith Dear <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

Donald,
Instead, write "list var1 if var2==float(.07)".

It's explained at:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/float.html

kd



At 02:17 PM 23/07/2007, Donald Braman wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how the if statement works. I have two
> variables, var1 and var2.  let's say that they're as follows:
>
> var1   var2
> .09     0
> .01     0
> .03    .07
> .05    .07
> .09    .08
>
> If I type "list var1 if var2==0", I get, as I expected, a result list
> containing .09 & .01 .
>
> But if I type "list var1 if var2==.07", I get nothing.
>
> Clearly, I'm missing something. What? (I've attached the data in case
> that helps.)
>
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="data.dta"
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="data.dta"
> X-Attachment-Id: f_f4gg6afq
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