Dear Rich,
It works perfectly. Thanks very much Rich.
best wishes,
kamarul
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Richard Goldstein
<richgold@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> use the inrange function:
>
> gen byte newvar=inrange(icd,"I60","I69")
>
> rich
>
> On 11/13/12 7:40 AM, Kamarul Imran wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I assume my question is not difficult, but it seems I can not find my
>> way around it. Let us say, I have a string variable named 'icd' and
>> can be inputted as
>>
>> input str8 icd
>> "I60.2"
>> "B25.3"
>> "C34.3"
>> "I65.4"
>> "I68.1"
>> end
>>
>> I would like to generate a new variable that shows as 1 whenever
>> variable 'icd' contain words from I60 to I69, and 0 whenever variable
>> 'icd' does not have that. So for my example, i will have a new
>> variable showing 1 for the 1st, 4th and 5th observation and 0 for
>> others.
>>
>> How can I do that. Really appreciate if someone can help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kamarul Imran Musa
>> School of Medical Sciences,
>> USM, Malaysia
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