RE: st: RE: importing html to stata - http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/icd8h.htm

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

No, not directly. You can only attach value labels to integers, remember. 

But the best way you can do something similar is likely to be with a -merge-. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Lars Folkestad

Thank you Nick, that worked fantastic.
Is it possible to use this newly created dta file as a value label for
another data set, so that if fx in my other data set i have a patient with
the diagnosis 000.0 which is essential cholera, the essential cholera will
show up as a value label?
lars

Den 08/12/11 14.11 skrev "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>:

>Followed by 
>
>gen var1 = word(text, 1)
>gen var2 = subinstr(text, word(text, 1), "", 1)
>
>
>Nick 
>n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Cox 
>Sent: 08 December 2011 13:07
>To: 'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'
>Subject: RE: importing html to stata -
>http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/icd8h.htm
>
>This seemed to work for me. It took a few iterations.
>
>infile str244 text using http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/icd8h.htm, clear
>drop in 1/39
>drop in 20827/L
>compress
>gen entry = regexm(text, "^\(*[0-9]")
>replace entry = regexm(text, "^\([E|N|Y][0-9]") if entry == 0
>replace entry = regexm(text, "^[E|N|Y][0-9]") if entry == 0
>replace entry = sum(entry)
>replace text = text[_n-1] + " " + text if entry == entry[_n-1]
>sort entry, stable
>by entry : keep if _n == _N
>drop entry
>
>Nick 
>n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Lars Folkestad
>Sent: 08 December 2011 12:42
>To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>Subject: st: importing html to stata -
>http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/icd8h.htm
>
>Dear List
>
>I would like to download the following html into stata:
>http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/icd8h.htm
>I would like to make the numbers from 000 - _n be var1 and the text from
>cholera to be var2
>
>Can this be done through stata or do i need to go via a program of some
>sort.
>I've tried searching the list, and found one example:
>http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-03/msg00535.html
>But i must admit i did not understand what that was all about, and i dont
>think it applies to my problem.

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