Re: st: word count discrepancy

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 10:24 AM 9/5/2006, Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311) wrote:
> Hello - It appears that the word count local function is giving a value
> one too high. For example
>
>
> . local ttt "aaa bbb ccc"
>
> . local nt: word count of `ttt'
>
> . di `nt'
> 4
>
> I have Stata 9.2 Intercooled for Windows - born 8/28/2006
>
> Have I overlooked something?
Yes.  The "of" should not be in there - it is being counted as a word.

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