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From | Richard Goldstein <[email protected]> |
To | [email protected] |
Subject | Re: st: Simplifying multiple cases of the if command |
Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:52:33 -0500 |
look at the inlist function (-h inlist-) Rich On 11/16/12 12:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi all. > This might be a very easy question, but if I have a number of things > that have to hold when generating a variable, is there a way to > simplify the following? > > generate variable if news== 1 | news == 3 | news ==5 > > to something like > generate variable if news == 1 | 3 | 5? I tried this > > Thanks! * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/