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Re: st: Need Help Recoding a variable -Dealing with string expression


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Need Help Recoding a variable -Dealing with string expression
Date   Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:00:03 +0100

The question is too general to answer fully but one pattern is just

recode x <whatever> if y == "foo"

In addition to exact equality of string values there are many other
possibilities involving string functions.

Nick

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Michael Stewart
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I need to recode a variable if another variable has a nonnumeric
> string observation(could have any non-numeric expression)
>
> Eg:       recode x(......)  if y =TSTATA COMMAND  (any  non-numeric
> string expression)
>
> Can you please help me with the command to take into consideraiton
> "any non-numeric string expression "

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