Hej,
Try -replace- instead of -recode-
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replace var2 ="EFV" if var =="EFA"
replace var2 ="EFV" if var =="Efavirenz"
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Olalekan Uthman
--- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear STATA lister
> basic question, i am trying to recode column with
> list of names that
> have been entered in different ways.
>
> var1
> EFA, Panadol
> EFV, Panado
> Antibiotics, Efavirenz
>
>
> I am trying to generate new variable var2 to have
> one value for EFV
> gen var2 = var1
> recode var (?EFA? = EFV) (?EFV? = EFV) (?Efavirenz?
> = EFV)
>
> Recode does not accept text, any tips how to go
> around it?
>
>
> Thank you in advance and best regards
> ziad
>
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