st: RE: STATA equivalent SAS code

[Dan Blanchette <dan.blanchette@duke.edu>]

Jose,

I hope you know about my webpage:
 "A SAS User's Guide to Stata"
http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/home/blanc004/data_programming/sas_to_stata/

Martin is right that Stata's -inlist()- is equivalent to SAS's in().
In Stata's -inlist()- you have to put the variable being tested inside the 
parentheses which is not how SAS's in() works:

 if varx in (value1,value2,value3) then ...some SAS code ...;

would be:

 ..some Stata code...  if inlist(varx,value1,value2,value3)


There is not really a Stata equivalent to SAS's if-then-do programming style,
but I have an example Stata do-file page that shows how you can come pretty
close to doing that sort of programming in Stata:
http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/home/blanc004/data_programming/stata/code/cond_fun.html

HTH,

Dan Blanchette
Research Associate
Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
dan.blanchette@duke.edu

> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:30:05 +0200
> From: "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>
> Subject: st: RE: STATA equivalent SAS code
>
> <>
> I am not an SAS user myself, but you may want to look at -inlist()-
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jose Benuzillo
> Sent: Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010 23:26
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: STATA equivalent SAS code
>
> Hi all,
> What is the Stata equivalent of the following SAS code?
> If varx in (value1,value2,value3) then do;
> Thanks
> - -jose
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