Dear all,
I've noticed that the behavior of -rownumb()- function has changed in the version 11 compared to the previous versions and was wandering whether this is a bug or an intentional modification.
here's an example:
matrix M = 1 \ 2 \ 3 \ 4 \ 5
matrix rownames M = "b" "c" "1:a" "1:b" "1:c"
matrix list M
Basically I want to distinguish rows with a same name but different equation names (including one with and another without equation name).
So I search for with a full name:
.display rownumb(M, "1:b")
and
.display rownumb(M, ":b")
to get 4 in the first case and 1 in the second.
If I search for "a"
.display rownumb(M, "1:a")
returns 3 and I'd expect (and until Stata 11 this was true)
.display rownumb(M, ":a")
would return missing because there is no row with an empty equation name and row name "a".
But Stata in Stata 11 I again get 3, so as it comes out Stata 11 doesn't distinguish between these two cases (as did the previous versions):
.display rownumb(M, "a") // any row with a name "a", in our case 3, and
.display rownumb(M, ":a") // row with an empty eqname and rowname "a" - in our case not found.
Any ideas what's going on here?
Thanks,
zurab
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