Re: st: Re: Pass Integers to Program

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

....
Thanks for the correction -- I forgot the exact syntax (guess I should have read 
the on-line help before posting...).

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maarten buis" <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: st: Re: Pass Integers to Program



> --- Michael Blasnik <michael.blasnik@verizon.net> wrote:
> > It would be easiest to make this a "required" option because you
> > could then use the numlist syntax.
> >
> > syntax ..., values(numlist min=1 max=49 integer ascending)
> Very true, but min and max here refer to the number of element, so you
> will want to fix those at 6, and the range is governed by > and <. So
> to require everybody to give a list of 6 integers between 0 and 50
> (exclusive) and to sort those numbers you type:
>
> syntax ... , values(numblist min=6 max=6 >0 <50 sort integer)
>
> This way the block of code Michael added for checking the number of
> elements in `values' becomes unnecesary.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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