This reminds me to place a wish regarding levelsof: I wish I had an
extended marco function -levelsof-, so that I could code things like
forach k in `:levelsof country' {
...
}
or
egen axis = axis(price), label(make)
graph twoway scatter axis weight, ylab(`:levelsof axis', valuelabel)
Uli
Am Freitag, den 21.09.2007, 14:39 +1000 schrieb Keith Dear:
> Luhang,
> Read -help levelsof-. You need to name, as an option, the local macro
> where you want the list to be stored, thus:
> levelsof YY, loc(levels)
> where "levels" is your choice of name for a local macro.
>
> Alternatively, you can access the result of -levelsof- as r(levels), like this:
> use Y, clear
> levelsof YY
> use X, clear
> foreach l in `=r(levels)' {
> replace XX=subinstr(XX,"`l'","",.)
> }
> Note that foreach needs "in" not "of" in this usage, because there is
> no keyword (such as "local"), simply a list of terms. In your
> example, `=r(levels)' evaluates to the list `"a"' `"b"'.
> kd
>
> At 01:17 PM 21/09/2007, you wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I'm trying to take some strings out of a string variable. Suppose data
> >set Y contains the list of strings, named variable YY, that I want to
> >take out from a string variable XX in data set X. An example is that
> >YY takes value "a" and "b", and XX takes "ac" and "bd", the results I
> >want are "c" and "d".
> >
> >My code is as following:
> >
> >***************************************************
> >use Y,clear
> >levelsof YY
> >
> >use X,clear
> >foreach l of local levels {
> > replace XX=subinstr(XX,"`l'","",.)
> >}
> >
> >**************************************************
> >It doesn't work. Could someone tell me what is wrong with my code? Or
> >is there better method achieving this? Many thanks in advance.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Luhang
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>
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