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Re: st: keep


From   Erik Bihagen <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: keep
Date   Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:30:16 +0200

Thanks Sebastian, it works!

Erik

Sebastian F. B�chte wrote:
Erik

in deed I guess you are right. So my suggestions would now involve a
little programming:

*----- example start
//local keeplist holds the list of variables which you would like to
keep if they
//exist in the dataset
local keeplist v1 v2 v3

local kl_modif
foreach el of local keeplist {
capture confirm variable `el'
if _rc==0 {
local kl_modif `kl_modif' `el'
}
}
capture keep `kl_modif'

*-----example end

2007/9/10, Erik Bihagen <[email protected]>:

Thanks,

but i tried that. The problem is that the result of -capture keep v1 v2
v3 - is that the command is disregarded. As an example; I want to keep
v1, and v2, but not v4 for data sets where v1, v2 and v4 are present
(and run the same command for all other data sets I have, see below)

/Erik

Sebastian F. B�chte wrote:

Erik

try -capture keep v1 v2 v3-.

regards
Sebastian

2007/9/10, Erik Bihagen <[email protected]>:


Hi Statalisters,

Is there a way to let the keep command do the following?
I want to keep, let's say, three variables v1 v2 v3 before saving data,
but all these three variables do not exist in all data sets for which I
want to run the command (I want to do this with a loop using many data
sets and I use global to define the variables).

I could drop variables instead using "capture drop v4" etc, but that
would become a very long do file.

Cheers

Erik

--
Erik Bihagen
Swedish Institute for Social Research
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Phone: +46 8 16 26 51
Fax: +46 8 15 46 70


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