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st: Writing a value from a variable into a macro
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"Palan, Stefan ([email protected])" <[email protected]>
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st: Writing a value from a variable into a macro
Date
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:31:06 +0200
Hi everybody,
I would like to write a specific value of a variable in my dataset into a macro. Assume I have a dataset with the two variables "number" and "text". They contain observations like (1, "one"), (2, "two"), (3, "three"), etc. Now I would like to write a specific value into a local macro. For example, I might be looking for the text that goes with the observation with number==2, and would like to assign that value to a local macro. Very amateurishly, I was looking for code similar to the following:
local v=text if number==2
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Can somebody help me with some code that would actually work?
Cheers,
Stefan.
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Dr. Stefan Palan
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Karl-Franzens-University Graz
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