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Re: st: Simplifying multiple cases of the if command


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Simplifying multiple cases of the if command
Date   Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:55:57 +0000

You can go

... if inlist(news, 1, 3, 5)

That is another way to do it. See also

SJ-6-4  dm0026  . . . . . . Stata tip 39: In a list or out? In a range or out?
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q4/06   SJ 6(4):593--595                                 (no commands)
        tip for use of inlist() and inrange()

http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0026

or

http://statadaily.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/functions-inlist/

Nick

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:33 PM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:

> This might be a very easy question, but if I have a number of things
> that have to hold when generating a variable, is there a way to
> simplify the following?
>
> generate variable if news== 1 | news == 3 | news ==5
>
> to something like
> generate variable if news == 1 | 3 | 5? I tried this
>
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