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st: RE: How to read a particular value in a variables then save it to macro?
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: How to read a particular value in a variables then save it to macro?
Date
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:00:31 +0200
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clear*
inp X str1 STR
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 d
5 e
6 f
7 g
8 h
9 i
10 j
end
local temp=STR[2]
di "`temp'"
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HTH
Martin
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Subject: st: How to read a particular value in a variables then save it to
macro?
Dear All,
I would like to know if it is possible to read and save a particular
value in a dta file to macro. I mean one particular value of a
variable rather than the "variable itself".
I have a dataset of 2 columns and ten rows. One column has the
column_name of X which has a value of 1 to 10. The first row is 1, the
second is 2,.....
And I have another column which has a column_name of STR which is made
up of string, the first row is "a", the second is "b",.....
Can I pinpoint one particular cell in this dataset and save the
contents of this particular cell to a macro?
eg I want to ask STATA to give me the value of STR when X=2, the
value should be "b".
local temp = STR if X==2 (of course, it does not work and that's why I
ask for help.)
Thank you very much for your help and have a nice day.
Allen
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