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From   "Steichen, Thomas J." <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: [programming] syntax syntax
Date   Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:11:17 -0500

Al,

When you specify an optional option as a real in the syntax
statement, you must also specify the default value.

For varlist, you can use suboption (default=none) to keep it blank.
Then your planned approach will work. For example:

syntax [varlist(default=none)] [if] [in] , confdir(string) ///
       level(real) [ xb1(real 1.0) n1(string) ]

Tom

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Thomas J. Steichen
[email protected]
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: [programming] syntax syntax

Hi - I have two questions regarding the syntax of the "syntax"
statement:

1)
I've been trying to write a program (effcon.ado) that starts with

syntax [varlist] [if] [in] , confdir(string) level(real) [xb1(string)
n1(string) ]
tokenize `varlist'
local nv: word count `varlist'
di " nv = `nv'"

For some reason, this will work only if the "xb1" option is a string,
but not if I change it to real:

a) output when xb1 is a string in the syntax statement:
.. discard

.. effcon x1,level(.95)  confdir(L) xb1(xyz) n1(asd)
 nv = 1
[it works, etc.]

But if I change the "xb1" option to real, I get a syntax error:

b) output when xb1 is real in the syntax statement:
.. set trace on

.. discard

.. effcon x1,level(.95)  confdir(L) xb1(1.234) n1(asd)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- begin effcon ---
- version 9.0
- syntax [varlist] [if] [in] , confdir(string) level(real) [xb1(real)
n1(string) ]
invalid syntax
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------- end effcon ---
r(197);

2)
My second question deals with the word count of `varlist'. I want to
have the option of no variables in varlist. But if I don't list any in
my calling statement, `'varlist' is treated as a list of all the
variables in my dataset. I thought I could just count the elements in
`'varlist' and then do something if that count is zero (i.e. if I don't
enter any variables) - but the count comes out 12 (in this case) because
I have 12 variables in my data set. Any other suggestions on how to test
if I entered any variables in my calling statement?

Thanks

Al Feiveson

2) Example where I enter no variables but `varlist' contains all my
variables:
Contains data from temprat.dta
  obs:           100
 vars:            12                          13 Dec 2007 08:05
 size:         5,200 (99.9% of memory free)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
              storage  display     value
variable name   type   format      label      variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
R               float  %9.0g
C               float  %9.0g
xb1             float  %9.0g
xb2             float  %9.0g
s               float  %9.0g
rat             float  %9.0g
rat10           float  %9.0g
a               float  %9.0g
b               float  %9.0g
n1              float  %9.0g
x1              float  %9.0g
x2              float  %9.0g
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
.. discard

.. set trace on

.. effcon ,level(.95)  confdir(L)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- begin effcon ---
- version 9.0
- syntax [varlist] [if] [in] , confdir(string) level(real) [xb1(string)
n1(string) ]
- tokenize `varlist'
= tokenize R C xb1 xb2 s rat rat10 a b n1 x1 x2
- local nv: word count `varlist'
= local nv: word count R C xb1 xb2 s rat rat10 a b n1 x1 x2
- di " nv = `nv'"
= di " nv = 12"
 nv = 12
 [rest omitted]

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