alternative to if-statements with series

[marco.stringa]

I would like to write a flexible programme that excludes observations with particular characteristics. For example, I want to temporary excludes some observations belonging to a series where some variables take too high or too low values (eg for several independent series with 100 realisations I want to exclude the 1st and 99th percentiles of each series).

Unfortunately the easier solution a ‘if/then/else statement’ command cannot be used with series.
Thank you,

Marco
PS I am using e-views 6.

[startz]

You want smpl if, which specifies a condition for including observations. For example

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smpl if X>-1 and X<17

[marco.stringa]

Thank you very - sorry i thought I could not use the "if" with series in any case.