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Re: Re: st: keep if string for more variables
From
Red Owl <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: st: keep if string for more variables
Date
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:55:08 -0500
My suggestion below assumed you have a single string variable named
color with values blue01, blue02, yell0w01, etc.
If you have a set of binary variables for various colors, the solution
would be different.
> Red Owl <redowl@liu> wrote:
>
> Try:
>
> keep if substr(color,1,4)== "blue"
>
> Red Owl
> [email protected]
>> Nick Bornschein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have string variables, blue01 to blue10 and yellow01 to yellow10. I
want to keep some data by using:
>>
>>
>> keep if color == "blue*" to keep all blue data, but it does not work.
Any idea?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> -Nick
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