strpos() for many cases in values of string variables

[Mihir Sharma]

I am cleaning survey data where I want to code a string variable (x) to a numerical variable (y). For example, I want to replace y == 1 if the x variable contains certain strings like: "fgh", "f g h", "pdr" etc. Instead of using the pipe "|", in the code below, I was wondering if I could code this more efficiently?

replace y = 1 if strpos(lower(x), "fgh") > 0 | strpos(lower(x), "f g h") >0 | strpos(lower(x), "pdr") > 0

Many thanks,
Mihir

[Nick Cox]

> 0 is dispensable as non-zero counts as true regardless.

 
 replace y = 1 if strpos(lower(x), "fgh")| strpos(lower(x), "f g h") | strpos(lower(x), "pdr")