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RE: st: problem with a macro


From   "Roger Newson" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: problem with a macro
Date   Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:28:22 -0000

Surely, instead of typing

global D wordcount($demographe) ;

you should type

global D: word count $demographe ;

See the online help by typing

help extended_fcn

in Stata.

I hope this helps.

Roger

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Svend Juul wrote:
I have a problem with the syntaxe global
When I type
global demographe "one NE SOUTH MIDWEST sex_c age_c kids05
kids610 kids1115 voiture maison" ;
then
global D wordcount($demographe) ;
I expect that stata returns the number 11
but I get the folowing message when I type
dis $D
oneNESOUTHMIDWESTsex_cage_ckids05kids610kids1115voituremaison
invalid name
----------------------------------------------------------

Abdelrahmen,

It is:
global D wordcount("$demographe")

Svend
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