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Re: st: filter by value labels
From
Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: filter by value labels
Date
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:01:15 -0400
Daniel Klein <[email protected]>:
I think the poster wanted to avoid -decode- because the datasets
involved are very large, but there is no need to fire up -decode- or
make any tempvars, I think.
prog drop _all
prog labmatch
version 11.1
loc c 1
forval j = 1(2)`: word count `0'' {
loc v: word `j' of `0'
loc vs `vs' `v'
loc m: word `=`j'+1' of `0'
mata:v=J(1,1,.)
mata:t=J(1,1,.)
mata:st_vlload("`:val lab `v''",v,t)
mata:st_local("s",invtokens(strofreal(select(v,strmatch(t,"`m'"):>0)')))
tokenize `s'
while `"`1'"'!="" {
loc c `c'&`v'==`1'
mac sh
}
}
l `vs' if `c'
end
sysuse nlsw88, clear
labmatch race other married marr* collgrad col* occ Sal*
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:45 PM, daniel klein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ...make "tempname" in line 4 "tempvar"
>
> By the way, if it is not clear from the example, the "syntax" is:
>
> foo varname "value label to be matched" varname "value label to be matched" ...
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