keep if x==5
list in 1/10
On 4/10/08, Malcolm Wardlaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm sure this question is easy to answer, but searching for it is a little
> hard given that there are a lot of "if"s and "in"s in the documentation.
>
> I want to be able to list the first 10 observations that conform to a given
> 'if' statement.
>
> I can't do
>
> list if x=5 in 1/10
>
> or
>
> list in 1/10 if x=5
>
> since that only returns the first 10 observations in the data -if- they
> conform.
>
> I want the first 10 observations that -do- conform.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Sorry if this is a dumb question
>
> Malcolm
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