Re: st: Keeping values in multiple variables

[djason@email.unc.edu]

still "mon ambiguous abbreviation" error
Quoting Felipe Salazar <felipe.salazar@uai.cl>:

> You are typing 'k' instead of `k' which is slightly different. Try
> copying directly the code into your do-file (at least the lines with the
> `k' )
>
> -- Felipe
>
> djason@email.unc.edu escribis:
>
> > Thank you for the tip, but it's stating that 'k' is an invalid name,
> > although
> > it is defined.  If you have any more ideas I would love to see them.
> >
> > Thank you
> > Dexter E. Jason
> > Quoting Felipe Salazar <felipe.salazar@uai.cl>:
> >
> > > If I understand correctly, you have 204 variables named mon1 mon2 mon3
> > > ... mon204. I would type:
> > >
> > > local k=1
> > > while `k'<=204 {
> > >    keep if mon`k'=="3"
> > >    local ++k
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > djason@email.unc.edu escribi?:
> > >
> > > > I'm having one problem with a command in STATA 8.0. I have variables
> > > > in which
> > > > I want to keep only one case in all of them, but there's too many
> > > > (204)to do
> > > > one by one.
> > > >
> > > > i.e.
> > > > keep if mon*=="3"
> > > > keep if mon[i]=="3"
> > > >
> > > > But I get an "mon ambiguous abbreviation" error. Please help!!!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Dexter E. Jason
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