But that's minimal -ds-. Supporting all the options is the tricky thing
-- and conversely the extra strength given by the options is why people
should want to use -ds- in the first place.
Nick
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Ulrich Kohler
-unab- does the trick as well and is documented:
. unab a: _all
. local b make rep78
. local c:list a - b
. disp "`c'"
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 09:39 -0500 schrieb Eric A. Booth:
> Thanks for the clarification, Nick. I made the erroneous assumption
> that an increase in the number after -ds- (e.g., ds2, ds3, ds5...)
> meant newer versions of the program.
>
> Since -ds- is now an undocumented/unofficial command, I am curious
> whether there are other commands that have its functionality. In the
> "previously documented" link in the -ds- help file it says:
>
> " Previously documented commands are commands of Stata from a previous
> release that are no longer documented because they have been
> superseded by more recent, better commands. "
>
> I see that you can grab a c(varlist) from commands like -desc- and you
> could probably use extended macro functions to piece together what -
> ds- does, but is there another command that has -ds- 's functionality
> built in & supersedes -ds- ??
>
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