st: Is there an equivalent of ACCESS IIF function in STATA?

[Weiwei Du <wdu@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Hi,

In ACCESS the IIF function returns one value if a specified condition
evaluates to TRUE, or another value if it evaluates to FALSE:

IIF (condition, value_if_true, value_if_false)

condition is the value that you want to test.
value_if_true is the value that is returned if condition evaluates to TRUE.
value_if_false is the value that is return if condition evaluates to FALSE

I'm looking for a similar function in STATA in order to set a variable to
two different values based on a condition test.

Is there such a function existing? Or, any other easy way to work this out?

Thank you very much.

Weiwei


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