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Re: st: Drop depending of the first digits of a variable
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Drop depending of the first digits of a variable
Date
Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:09:42 +0100
If the variable is numeric
drop if substr(string(myvar), 1, 2) == "65"
or
drop if floor(myvar/100) == 65
and if it is string
drop if substr(myvar, 1, 2) == "65"
Nick
[email protected]
On 25 June 2013 20:03, Miguel Angel Duran Munoz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a variable whose observations are identified by a
> four-digit number (eg, 5434, 6576...). I would like to drop those
> observations whose first two digits are 65 (eg, drop 6576 but keep 5434).
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