Thanks, everybody.
Nick, thank you: getting rid of the = sign did it. I always thought
the = and the lack thereof were interchangeable when declaring locals.
Sloppiness.
Scott: thanks for cf.
Sergiy: how do you byte-compare in Stata? A Google search produced
links to all sorts of utilities for the job.
Gabi
On Feb 12, 2008 3:10 PM, Scott Merryman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 1:53 PM, Gabi Huiber <[email protected]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Is there some more elegant way to compare two files and isolate any differences?
> >
> -cf- ?
>
> Scott
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