Re: st: RE: RE: Strings and the greater than/less than operators

[Gary Longton <glongton@fhcrc.org>]

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Nick was referring to the string function -char()- (see -help string functions-)
which is unrelated to the -char- command.

- Gary

sdm1 wrote:

> The only bit I don't understand is: "The order is that of -char()-".  
>
> It sounds to me as if char is user defined.  This is from the help for char:
>
>  The dataset itself and each variable within the dataset have associated
> with them a set of characteristics.
>     Characteristics are named and referred to as varname[charname], where
> varname is the name of a variable or _dta.
>     The characteristics contain text.  Characteristics are stored with the
> dataset in the Stata-format .dta dataset,
>     so they are recalled whenever the dataset is loaded.
>
> If characteristics for a variable are not defined by the user, what's the
> default order?  Is there a list somewhere which will tell me the order in
> which Stata sorts characters e.g. alphabetric, numeric, spaces, etc.  Or am
> I misinterpreting here?
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