Svend's answer assumes that the variables in question
are string. If they were numeric variables with value labels,
use -egen, concat()- with the -decode- option.
Nick
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Svend Juul
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Ziad wrote:
In Excel the person can have the content of 3 other cells in one cell,
for example
Drug1 Drug2 Drug3 Drugs
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Panad Asp Val Panad/Asp/Val
by typing:
drugs=drug1&"/"&drug2&"/"drug3
Is it possible to do something similar in STATA?
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yes:
generate drugs = drug1 + "/" + drug2 + "/" + drug3
or:
egen drugs = concat(drug1-drug3), punct(/)
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