st: Re: undocumented command *

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

Shameless advert: http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0040

But your message indicates you already knew that.

Apart from that, I think of -zipfile- and -unzipfile-. They both do good 
services in one of my ados, but have to the best of my knowledge never been 
acknowledged... I think there was a post by Sergiy back in the day that 
alerted me to their presence :-)

HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eva Poen" <eva.poen@gmail.com>
To: "Statalist" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:36 PM
Subject: st: undocumented command *



> Today I stumbled upon this neat little command -*-, whose only purpose
> in life seems to be to do nothing at all, and swallow everything
> behind it:
>
> * blah blubb this does not make any sense but Stata doesn't complain,
> surprisingly
>
> (Try typing this in Stata.) I found it while implementing some
> entertaining dots for my exact unconditional test program, in the
> style of -simulate- etc. I examined simulate.ado, and there it was.
> -which *- shows that it officially doesn't exist.
>
> I was wondering if there are more of these "hidden gems", which might
> be useful in programming, but are not only undocumented but also
> invisible for -which-. Any suggestions?
>
> Eva
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