st: Re: options in .ado files

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Please state the actual problem -- does Stata issue an error when executing 
the -if-, or is there some later problem that results in an error or 
mistaken result?

I would guess that the problem is that the if statement assigns a value to a 
scalar named t, but if the t() options is used, it assigns a numlist to a 
local macro named t.  Therefore, if your code references `t', it won't see 
the scalar (which is t, not `t').  Perhaps the statement inside the if 
should be:

local t "1000"

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NEYMOTIN, FLORENCE" <neymotin@calmail.berkeley.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:03 PM
Subject: st: options in .ado files



> Hi, I have the user entering a string of numbers as an OPTION in a .ado 
> file, but for some reason, the code I wrote for when the user does NOT 
> enter the string is not working.  In this case, I have :
>
> syntax varlist, [t(numlist)]
>
> and then...
>
> if "`t'"== ""  {
> scalar t=1000
> }
> else {
> ...
> }
>
> for some reason, it doesn't like the way that I defined the if statement.
> any suggestions would be appreciated.
> thanks,
> Florence
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