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Re: st: Why was -index()- dropped?


From   Nick Winter <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Why was -index()- dropped?
Date   Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:34:24 -0500

This thread has clarified for me something (almost) completely unrelated. For years I've been wondering what "stroke" has to do with string variables being acceptable; only just now do i realize that "strok", as is "markout varlist, strok" is short for "string ok".


Duh.

-Nick Winter

Ronan Conroy wrote:

On 25 Jan 2008, at 15:06, William Gould, StataCorp LP wrote:

So we will quietly put -index()- back and make it work again.

Thank goodness! While I can easily imagine using a search-and-destroy text editor to replace all occurrences of 'strpos(' with 'index(' in every do-file on my machine, it's not safe to do this the other way around, and I wasn't looking forward to inspecting every occurrence of 'index(' before giving the go ahead to a replace.

I agree that strpos is far more user-readable, but for us old-timers (I realise I have my Stata 3 installation disks on the shelf) it will be hard to shake the index habit.


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