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st: Mata function stata() within program


From   Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Mata function stata() within program
Date   Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:57:16 +0100

I have a Mata function which looks as follows:

-------------------------------------lsq.mata--

(...)

// Mata Function to extract the substitution costs from subcost-matrix
void showhash(real rowvector R)
{
	string scalar key1
	st_local("key1",key1)
	key1 = strofreal(R[1,2])
	st_local("key1",key1)
	stata("local hash1 = mod(`key1',197)")
}

(...)

------------------------------------------------

The function is part of the mata-libary lsq.mlib, which compiles without 
problems. All other function in the library works well. However, if I run 
-showhash()- from within Mata I got the following error:

: R = 2,3,5,4
: showhash(R)
invalid syntax
                 stata():  3598  Stata returned error
              showhash():     -  function returned error
                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error
r(3598);

Further investigation showed that the error is connected to the -stata()- 
function. However, After running -showhash()- I can intactively run the same
-stata()- function without any problems:

: stata("local hash1 = mod(`key1',197)")
: stata("display `hash1'")
3

Any thoughts on this?

cu
Uli

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