Re: st: Identify and Replace Values

["Tobias Friedli" <tobias.friedli@access.uzh.ch>]

Thanks. This would be exactly what i am looking for. But it seems like this 
command was introduced in Stata 11 and i am stil working with Stata 10. Can 
i download this function somehow, so i can use it in Stata 10? Or is there a 
similar function?

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:56:03 +0200
 "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Sent: Montag, 12. Juli 2010 20:35
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> Subject: Re: st: Identify and Replace Values
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> Thank you very much, it seems to work like a charm. Only Problem is, that 
> the some Model-names contain spaces and then Stata says "invalid name". I 
> know there is a command to relpace all the spaces by an underscore, but i 
> can't find it anymore. Anybody knows this command? Thanks
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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:52:46 -0400
>  Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
> > how about
> >
> >  levelsof traded_model, local(traded)
> >  levelsof new_model, local(new)
> >  local onlytraded : list traded - new
> >  local onlynew    : list new - traded
> >  local others     : list onlynew | onlytraded
> >
> >  replace traded_model="others" if inlist(traded_model,"`others'")
> >  replace new_model   ="others" if inlist(new_model,"`others'")
> >
> >
> > hth,
> > Jeph
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> > On 7/12/2010 12:18 PM, Hobst wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I have a huge dataset containing automotive brand-swiching data. I have a
> > > variable called traded_model and another variable called new_model. in 
> > > order
> > > to output a symmetric swiching matrix i need to identify all the 
> > > expressions
> > > that are eigther only in traded_brand or only in new_brand and replace
> the
> > > expression with "others". For example a model called "318d" exists in
> > > traded_model but not in new_model, so all the "318d" should be replaced
> by
> > > "others".
> > >
> > > Does anyone have an idea how i can programm that? I dont get it to work, 
> > > and
> > > doing it manually is close to impossible as there are more than 1000
> > > different model names.
> > >
> > > Any help is much appreciated, thank you.
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