And I needed some time to realize that
. marksample touse
had nothing to do with "those", but with "to use"....
On Jan 25, 2008 9:34 PM, Nick Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
> This thread has clarified for me something (almost) completely
> unrelated. For years I've been wondering what "stroke" has to do with
> string variables being acceptable; only just now do i realize that
> "strok", as is "markout varlist, strok" is short for "string ok".
>
>
> Duh.
>
> -Nick Winter
>
>
> Ronan Conroy wrote:
> > On 25 Jan 2008, at 15:06, William Gould, StataCorp LP wrote:
> >
> >> So we will quietly put -index()- back and make it work again.
> >
> >
> > Thank goodness! While I can easily imagine using a search-and-destroy
> > text editor to replace all occurrences of 'strpos(' with 'index(' in
> > every do-file on my machine, it's not safe to do this the other way
> > around, and I wasn't looking forward to inspecting every occurrence of
> > 'index(' before giving the go ahead to a replace.
> >
> > I agree that strpos is far more user-readable, but for us old-timers (I
> > realise I have my Stata 3 installation disks on the shelf) it will be
> > hard to shake the index habit.
> >
> >
> > P Before printing, think about the environment
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