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Re: st: cancel a selection and continue working with all the variablesor category of a variable


From   Svend Juul <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: cancel a selection and continue working with all the variablesor category of a variable
Date   Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:49:53 +0200

Carmen wrote:

I know how I would like to cancel a selection and 
continue working with all the variables or category 
of a variable?

Example:  keep if yearfile=="1996"

and then (cancel select)   cancel the selection and 
working with all the categories: 

======================================================

-preserve- and -restore- do what you want:

    ...
    preserve
    keep if ...
    restore

HTH
Svend
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(Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology)
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