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st: re: Testing for variable type


From   Christopher Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: re: Testing for variable type
Date   Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:21:37 -0500

<>
No need for -ds- or -confirm-. Use the extended macro function (help extended_fcn) type:

sysuse auto
loc t1 : type length
loc t2:  type make
di "`t1'  `t2'"

Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Stata Programming   |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata   |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html

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