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*! version 1 19september2018
*! Jean-Benoit Hardouin
*
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* Stata program : mdreplace
* Missing data handling in a dataset
*
* Historic
* Version 1 (2018-09-19): Jean-Benoit Hardouin
*
* Jean-benoit Hardouin, Plateforme de Méthodologie et de Biostatistique - DRCi - CHU de Nantes - France
* jean-benoit.hardouin@univ-nantes.fr
*
* Copyright 2018 Jean-Benoit Hardouin
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*
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program define mdreplace
version 7.0
syntax varlist(min=1) , list(string)
if "`list'"=="" {
di in red "Please indicate in the list option the strings to replace by missing data"
}
foreach i of varlist `varlist' {
foreach e in `list' {
*di "variable : `i' code : `e'"
capture replace `i'="." if `i'=="`e'"
if (_rc==0) {
qui replace `i'="" if `i'=="`e'"
}
}
capture destring `i', replace
if (_rc==0) {
qui destring `i', replace
}
}
end