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st: RE: Detect use of svy: prefix
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"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Detect use of svy: prefix
Date
Wed, 25 May 2011 09:25:15 -0700 (PDT)
It seems to be the case that e(prefix) will include the value "svy" after
running a svy: command. So you could try something like this
. if strpos("`e(prefix)'","svy")==0 error
adding an error number if you care to.
David
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> Subject: st: Detect use of svy: prefix
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> Is there any way to tell if the svy: prefix has been used when
> calling a command? I have a quirky program where some options work
> fine with svy: but others don't, so I'd like to be able to issue an
> error message in the problematic situations.
>
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