st: Postfile question

["Poon, Kwun Yee" <poonk@anesthesia.ucsf.edu>]

Dear list, 

I have a question on postfile syntax.  Using the following syntax, I was
expecting vari_name to store var1, var2, etc.  However, when I open the
result.dta, the values stored in vari_name is the values stores in var1,
etc.

Can someone help me solve this mystery?

Thanks,

Trudy

*****syntax********

set more off
tempname sim
postfile `sim' str15 vari_name chistat using result, replace
use "inputdata.dta", replace

quietly {
    foreach var of varlist var1-var10 {
    *Crosstab
      capture tabul gender `var', chi2
      scalar chitest = r(chi2)
    *Writing to external file
      post `sim' (`var') (chitest)
     scalar drop _all
    }
   }
postclose `sim'
clear
 


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