Ashim Kapoor wrote:
> Hello Carlo,
>
> cond would not be useful cos it can do ONLY 2 conditions. I want to be
> able to use it in MANY conditions. Is there a SUPER cond which can do
> that ?
>
I'm not aware, nor am I clear on what you mean by a "SUPER cond", but
its straight-forward and permissible to nest -cond()- statements along
the lines of...
gen t = cond(a == 1, 1, cond(b == 1, 2, cond(c == 1, 3, 0, .), .), .)
Neil
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"We should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Anon (not Albert Einstein)
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