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Re: st: Generate a new variable from a string variable containing specific words
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Generate a new variable from a string variable containing specific words
Date
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:46:44 -0500
use the inrange function:
gen byte newvar=inrange(icd,"I60","I69")
rich
On 11/13/12 7:40 AM, <redacted> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I assume my question is not difficult, but it seems I can not find my
> way around it. Let us say, I have a string variable named 'icd' and
> can be inputted as
>
> input str8 icd
> "I60.2"
> "B25.3"
> "C34.3"
> "I65.4"
> "I68.1"
> end
>
> I would like to generate a new variable that shows as 1 whenever
> variable 'icd' contain words from I60 to I69, and 0 whenever variable
> 'icd' does not have that. So for my example, i will have a new
> variable showing 1 for the 1st, 4th and 5th observation and 0 for
> others.
>
> How can I do that. Really appreciate if someone can help.
>
> Regards,
>
> <redacted>
> <redacted>
> <redacted>
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