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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
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:47:56 +0000
Here is how that question should have been asked.
% begin better question
I have one string variable -question- with values like "blue01"
"blue02" "yellow01" and so on. I want to keep all the values beginning
with "blue". I tried to use
keep if question == "blue*"
which did not work.
% end
Why that doesn't work was explained in my first reply.
How to solve it was explained by Red Owl. His reply is retained below.
Nick
[email protected]
On 11 December 2013 08:23, Nick Bornschein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry for the misleading details:
>
> I have one string variable (question) with string information like blue01
> blue02 yellow01 and so on. So that's why I tried to use
>
> keep if question == "blue*"
>
> which did not work.
Red Owl <redowl@liu> wrote:
>>>>> Try:
>>>>>
>>>>> keep if substr(color,1,4)== "blue"
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