Hello,

I am relatively new to STATA, with only a couple months experience and not much string experience.

I want to create a variable that stores 10 separate different words.

Ex:
animal:
cat
dog
lizard
bird
etc

I tried doing something like
gen animal = "cat" + " " + "dog"....

but that just gave me:

animal = cat dog lizard bird

and the results aren't all split up. I am doing this so that I can basically use this string value as the qualifier for an f statement that will do a command when the string is equal to one of the word values.

Thanks!