lb1 is not a variable, but a scalar.
Try parentheses, as indicated in the help for -file-:
file write handle "the upper confidence interval is: " (lb1)
Nick
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Sean Shu
> I need write the caculated result from my program together with some
> interpretation text into a text file. STATA seems that it is only
> capable of writing interpretation text into the specified
> text, but not
> for caculated result. Please look at the following code:
>
> ...
> svymean dummy1 dummy2
> mat define b= e(b)
> mat define v= e(V)
> scalar lb1 = b[1,1] - invttail(e(df_r), 0.025)*sqrt(v[1,1])
> scalar ub1 = b[1,1] + invttail(e(df_r), 0.025)*sqrt(v[1,1])
>
> file open handle using C:\temp\output.txt, write text
> file write handle "RRFSS 2005 "
> file write handle "Module objectives: "
>
> file write handle "the upper confidence interval is: " lb1
> file close handle
>
> After running the program, I found that the value of the
> variable "lb1"
> is not written into the text file. So I wonder whether there
> is a way to
> output the value of a variable into a text file. Thanks!
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