st: Re: merge command when variable already defined

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

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This is covered in -help merge-, see the -update- option.

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rufus Peabody" <rufus.peabody@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:26 PM
Subject: st: merge command when variable already defined



> I have a variable that contains values for most of my dataset.  I  
> would like to add values where it is presently undefined by match  
> merging with another dataset.  However, this does not work since the  
> variable is already defined.  The only way around this that I can see  
> is to simply delete the variable entirely.  Is there any way around  
> this?
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