Thank you Margaret and Eva. This is just what I needed.
Ronnie
Margaret R Grove wrote:
if "$member" == "jane" {
so that Stata will realize that you've got a string comparison .....
m
Ronnie Babigumira wrote:
Dear Listers,
I have data with codes for the members who collected the data and I
would like to assert that these codes are correct.
Here is what I have done
global member "john" // defined in another do-file
*** do-file that checks member codes *****
cd c:\temp/$member
input houscode memid
1 10101
2 10101
3 10101
end
if $member == "jane" {
assert memid == 10201
}
else if $member == "john" {
assert memid == 10101
}
exit
When I run this code, I get an error message -john not found-. What I
had hoped is that this code would take the information in the $member
and them check that the variable memid has the correct code
Am I missing something obvious. Please help
Ronnie
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