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st: Re: What is wrong with this syntax?


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: What is wrong with this syntax?
Date   Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:42:08 -0400

...

You need to -tokenize- your varlist to get them properly into local macros 1,2,3,etc.. Otherwise, 1,2,3 will hold command line "tokens" which will include adjacent commas.

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Hood" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: st: What is wrong with this syntax?



I have attempting to write a command (in version 8), with the following syntax:

program hhk, eclass
syntax varlist(min=3 max=3)[, P(real 0.5)]
di "`1'"
di "`2'"
di "`3'"
...

If I use the following call:

. hhk a b c, p(0.3)

I get an error (when I first try to use variable c), and the program displays

a
b
c,

Why is it picking up the comma in the third variable? It doesn't do that for built-in stata commands.

Thanks,
Kyle
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