Re: st: reading dataset if (Away)

["Seyi Soremekun" <Seyi.Soremekun@lshtm.ac.uk>]

I am away from the 21st September until the 12th October. Please direct any urgent enquiries to Linda Vesel (linda.vesel@lshtm.ac.uk).
Seyi

>>> Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> 09/21/11 23:48 >>>

Emmanuelle Lavaine <Emmanuelle.Lavaine@univ-paris1.fr>:
Try
use  if inlist(substr(diagp,1,1), "I", "J") using dataset.dta

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are reaching towards some kind of regular expression test but ==
> is a test for equality.
>
> use dataset.dta if inlist(substr(diagp,1,1), "I", "J")
>
> use dataset.dta if substr(diagp,1,1) == "I" | substr(diagp,1,1) == "J"
>
> Regular expressions are also possible here:
>
> . di regexm("Janvier", "^[IJ]")
> 1
>
> . di regexm("jeunesse", "^[IJ]")
> 0
>
> . di regexm("Jeunesse", "^[IJ]")
> 1
>
> use dataset.dta if regexm(diagp, "^[IJ]")
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Emmanuelle Lavaine
> <Emmanuelle.Lavaine@univ-paris1.fr> wrote:
>
>> I have a huge dataset and I would like to get rid of some observations
>> when opening it.
>> I want to open my dataset only if the first character corresponds to
>> 'I' or 'J'
>> for the string variable 'diagp', I have something like:
>>
>> diagp
>> I236
>> I256
>> I52
>> J46
>> J856
>> H343
>> etc..
>>
>> I tried:
>>   use 'dataset.dta' if diagp=="[I-J]*"
>>
>> But I am doing something wrong and I can't figurate it out.
>

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