Re: st: reading dataset if (Away)

["Seyi Soremekun" <Seyi.Soremekun@lshtm.ac.uk>]

I am away from the 21st September until the 12th October. Please direct any urgent enquiries to Linda Vesel (linda.vesel@lshtm.ac.uk).
Seyi

>>> Emmanuelle Lavaine <Emmanuelle.Lavaine@univ-paris1.fr> 09/21/11 22:46 >>>

Dear Statalisters,

I have a huge dataset and I would like to get rid of some observations
when opening it.
I want to open my dataset only if the first character corresponds to
'I' or 'J'
for the string variable 'diagp', I have something like:

diagp
I236
I256
I52
J46
J856
H343
etc..

I tried:
    use 'dataset.dta' if diagp=="[I-J]*"

But I am doing something wrong and I can't figurate it out.
Thanks for your help

Emma




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