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Re: st: keep if string for more variables
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: keep if string for more variables
Date
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:38:42 +0000
What you typed is legal in Stata, given a variable whose name
abbreviates to -color-, but it will catch only
"blue*"
as a literal string which is the value of that string variable.
You appear to want
keep blue*
which is a beast of a different colour (as we say in English).
Nick
[email protected]
On 10 December 2013 15:31, Nick Bornschein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have string variables, blue01 to blue10 and yellow01 to yellow10. I want
> to keep some data by using:
>
> keep if color == "blue*" to keep all blue data, but it does not work. Any
> idea?
>
> Thanks a lot
> -Nick
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