Re: st: Usage of "keep if".

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 03:10 PM 9/17/2006, Lucio Vinhas de Souza wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am sure this is very silly question, but I have a
> variable that I want to "keep if==" it has only some
> specific, non-continuos, values (namely, it is an
> index variable that indentifies firms, and I want to
> keep sepecific firms, let say 1, 7, 325, etc...). How
> do I write the command line? I have been trying for
> almost two hours, with different combinations and
> nothing works. I am using STAT version 8.
try something like

keep if inlist(firm, 1, 7, 325)

See -help inlist- for more details.


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