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Re: st: Simplifying multiple cases of the if command
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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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!
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