Malcolm,
If you don't want to use -keep-, there is one weird way.
gen q=_n if x==5
egen qq=group(q)
list if qq<=10
If you need just to look at the data, use -browse- instead of list:
browse x if x==5
Vladimir.
2008/4/10, Malcolm Wardlaw <[email protected]>:
> 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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