Re: st: creating a newvar with sequential values from a bunch of string variables

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:35 PM 6/25/2005 -0400, Suzy wrote:
> replace newvar=1 if var1 =="71600/71699" | var2=="71600/71699" | 
> var3=="71600/71699" | var4=="71600/71699"
> (0 changes made)
>
> But no changes occurred, which is impossible.
I'm not sure if this would work but it seems like you need to rework your 
quote marks, e.g.

replace newvar=1 if var1 =="71600"/"71699" etc.

Even so, I'm not clear on how your 2 pieces of code are supposed to be 
equivalent, i.e. the first snippet sets newvar to 44 and the 2nd snippet 
sets it to 1.

Also I wonder if your life would be easier if you used the -destring- 
command to create numeric versions of these string variables; see the help 
for destring.

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