Erik
in deed I guess you are right. So my suggestions would now involve a
little programming:
*----- example start
//local keeplist holds the list of variables which you would like to
keep if they
//exist in the dataset
local keeplist v1 v2 v3
local kl_modif
foreach el of local keeplist {
capture confirm variable `el'
if _rc==0 {
local kl_modif `kl_modif' `el'
}
}
capture keep `kl_modif'
*-----example end
2007/9/10, Erik Bihagen <[email protected]>:
> Thanks,
>
> but i tried that. The problem is that the result of -capture keep v1 v2
> v3 - is that the command is disregarded. As an example; I want to keep
> v1, and v2, but not v4 for data sets where v1, v2 and v4 are present
> (and run the same command for all other data sets I have, see below)
>
> /Erik
>
> Sebastian F. B�chte wrote:
> > Erik
> >
> > try -capture keep v1 v2 v3-.
> >
> > regards
> > Sebastian
> >
> > 2007/9/10, Erik Bihagen <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> Hi Statalisters,
> >>
> >> Is there a way to let the keep command do the following?
> >> I want to keep, let's say, three variables v1 v2 v3 before saving data,
> >> but all these three variables do not exist in all data sets for which I
> >> want to run the command (I want to do this with a loop using many data
> >> sets and I use global to define the variables).
> >>
> >> I could drop variables instead using "capture drop v4" etc, but that
> >> would become a very long do file.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Erik
> >>
> >> --
> >> Erik Bihagen
> >> Swedish Institute for Social Research
> >> Stockholm University
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> >>
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