st: Re: Programming style for multiple AND and OR constructs

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

inlist() and inrange() may be what you are looking for

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Winter" <d.l.winter@bham.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:54 AM
Subject: st: Programming style for multiple AND and OR constructs



> I am writing a Stata program to aggregate classifications based on a
> cancer TYPE and SITE. I am converting the code from SPSS so it is
> syntactically rather inefficient, for example:
>
> DO IF (TYPE = n OR TYPE = n2 OR TYPE = .... etc (further 5 iterations)).
> COMPUTE group = 1
> .
> .
> ELSE IF (TYPE = n AND TYPE = n2 AND TYPE = .....) etc.
> COMPUTE group = 2
>
> To make this a bit easier SPSS has a function: ANY(TYPE,n1,n2,n3).  Does
> Stata has a similar function?  I see there are functions -anyof()- and
> -allof() but they appear to have a different function.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
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