Stephen Soldz
>
> I'm trying to use the egenmore function, minutes, but keep
> on getting an
> error message. I'm using version 8 and have alredy checked
> for an update to
> egenmore.
>
> . clear
>
> . set obs 5
> obs was 0, now 5
>
> . gen J="00:15"
>
> . li J
>
> +-------+
> | J |
> |-------|
> 1. | 00:15 |
> 2. | 00:15 |
> 3. | 00:15 |
> 4. | 00:15 |
> 5. | 00:15 |
> +-------+
>
> . egen Jn=seconds(J)
> problematic characters in J
> r(459);
>
> I get the same error with seconds:
>
>
> . clear
>
> . set obs 5
> obs was 0, now 5
>
> . gen J="01:15:15"
>
> . li J
>
> +----------+
> | J |
> |----------|
> 1. | 01:15:15 |
> 2. | 01:15:15 |
> 3. | 01:15:15 |
> 4. | 01:15:15 |
> 5. | 01:15:15 |
> +----------+
>
> . egen Jn=seconds(J)
> problematic characters in J
> r(459);
>
> What's going on here? Am I misunderstanding something?
>
No. This is a bug in -seconds()-. The
test used to tap problematic input
fails when leading zeros are present.
For example, string(real("00")) does not
return "0". I'll need to revise the
test and post an update when I can.
The same bug exists in -minutes()-,
mentioned in Steve's title, but not in
the body of his posting.
Nick
[email protected]
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