I believe that you can also use the three backslash method when you
are using version 8 and up programs. I used it in a ML program yesterday
when defining
a long log-likelihood function. However, it will likely not work for
programs that indicate a lower version. Use like:
global set <blah blah> ......... ///
<blah blah> ..................... ///
<blah> ...
tempvar blah blah and on with the rest of the program.
Joe Hilbe
============================
Hello Maria,
You can do several things to make you command continue over several lines.
Here are two:
a) use comments to connect the lines:
global set2 "statetotgps99 statetotpsychs99 /*
*/ clin_psychol mh_sa_socwrk /*
*/ sa_mh_cnslrs"
b) assign a delimit character
#delimit ;
global set2 "statetotgps99 statetotpsychs99
clin_psychol mh_sa_socwrk
sa_mh_cnslrs";
#delimit cr
- Paul Millar
Sociology
University of Calgary
----- Original Message -----
From: Maria Montez <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:18 pm
Subject: st: truncate list
> Hi!
>
> Someone told me that if I split a list by typing /// where I
> wanted it to
> split, then STATA wouldn't give me an error and I would be able to
> see my
> entire list. Somehow this is not working (I'm using version 8).
> I've shorten
> the variable names here. They are much longer in my actual program and
> that's why this would be very helpful.
>
> So this is what I have written:
>
> global set2 "statetotgps99 statetotpsychs99 ///
> clin_psychol mh_sa_socwrk ///
> sa_mh_cnslrs"
>
> instead of writing:
>
> global set2 "statetotgps99 statetotpsychs99 clin_psychol mh_sa_socwrk
> sa_mh_cnslrs"
>
> Stata is giving me the following error:
>
> . global set2 "statetotgps99 statetotpsychs99 ///
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
> Can someone tell me why I'm getting this error or if I should be using
> something else?
>
> Thanks, Maria
>
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