Hi Martin,
if one writes -varlist- variables must already exist in memory. But
you sometimes want:
clear
describe somevars using somefile.dta
to work.
Your modified version will work ok, but replace it with varlist and
see what happens.
Best regards,
Sergiy Radyakin
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Curiously, describe.ado takes -anything- in its -syntax- statement. If you
> copy it to your very own describe2.ado in your personal directory and
> restate that as -anything(everything)- then you can pass it "in*" and it
> works as expected. I think that could be called a bug. Whether minor or not,
> I do not want to decide... -help describe- indicates that it takes a
> -varlist- so why would one want -anything- and not -varlist- in the -syntax-
> statement?
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: minor bug in -describe-?
>
>
>
> -in- is a reserved word in Stata, but it's also a very
> common prefix for variable names. So I often run into
> this:
>
> . d in*
> varlist not allowed
> r(101);
>
>
> Obviously, -describe- takes a varlist, but it won't take
> a varlist that looks like a reserved word. A bug, right?
> Or is there a reason for this?
>
> thanks,
> Jeph
>
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