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st: RE: if programming command


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: if programming command
Date   Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:00:21 +0100

This is a FAQ and I finger you with probability 0.8 as a sometime SAS
user! 

if visit == 1 { 
	...
} 

maps to if visit[1] == 1 { 
	...
} 

which almost never is what anyone wants. The first statement is what you
need and want, I'll bet. 

See 

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  if command vs. if
qualifier
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  J.
Wernow
        6/00    I have an if command in my program that only seems
                to evaluate the first observation, what's going on?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/ifqualifier.html

Nick 
[email protected] 

lou apicella

I'm trying to convert some logical statements into nested if statements.
I feel the two statements below should give the same result but they do
not.  What am I do wrong here?

replace syphilis=1 if visit==1 & lbcd=="SYP_RPR" & (lbresc!="POSITIVE
1:128" | lbresc!="POSITIVE 1:16")

if visit==1 {
    if lbcd=="SYP_RPR" & (lbresc!="POSITIVE 1:128" | lbresc!="POSITIVE
1:16" ) {
                replace syphilis==1
     }
}

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