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| From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: quick question |
| Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:04:55 -0000 |
I agree with Martin. There is no reason for -split- to choke on the variable name. The original author of -split- agrees too. There is some other reason for Tony's problem here. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Martin Weiss " many solutions used the split command - it choked on the variable other_rash - apparently it didn't like the underscore. I renamed the variable otherrash and it sort of worked, but gave me some strings and some numeric. " I do not buy the story about the underscore. Either a variable name is legal (according to the conventions set out in [U], 11.3), then all Stata commands will accept it "no questions asked", or it is not, which would prompt Stata to reject it the moment you try to introduce it. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/