Re: st: Suggestion for -confirm var- option

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

At 03:04 PM 3/12/2004 -0800, Kaleb Michaud wrote:
> I just spent some time trying to debug a program, when I realized that the 
> -confirm var- command does not require the variable to be spelled out fully.
>
> For example, suppose you have a program that looks to see if the variable 
> "car" exists.  If it doesn't, it creates or merges it in.  But, if I have 
> a variable called cartoon and not car in the data:
>
> . confirm var car
>
> gives us _rc == 0 even though the var car doesn't exist and the var 
> cartoon does.  Any way that the Stata powers that be could add an "exact" 
> option such that the varlist that it is confirming must have exact 
> variable syntax provided?  I think this is often an issue when dealing 
> with varlists - I know, just change the var names, but sometime this isn't 
> an option.
>
> I and I'd imagine others would appreciate it!
> [...]
That's a possibly desirable feature.  If you want Stata Corp to notice, 
it's worth sending such suggestions to tech-support@stata.com .

-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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