"Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael McCulloch" <mm@pinest.org>
>> Is there a less labor-intensive way to do the following:
>>
>> keep if site_02=="C180" | site_02=="C181" | site_02=="C182" | ///
>> site_02=="C183" | site_02=="C184" | site_02=="C185" | ///
>> site_02=="C186" | site_02=="C187" | site_02=="C188" |
>> site_02=="C189"
> see help inlist()
>
> It only works with up to 10 strings (which your example exactly meets)
Or use regular expressions:
. keep if regexm(site_02,"C18[0-9]")
Brendan
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