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| From | "Lachenbruch, Peter" <Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: quick question |
| Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:53:02 -0800 |
After looking a bit, I realized that in addition to OTHER_RASH, I had OTHER_RASH1 -OTHER_RASH4 in the data set, and this messed me up. Also in the conversion with destring, there were apparently some non-numeric characters in the picture. So problem seems solved. Tony Peter A. Lachenbruch Department of Public Health Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97330 Phone: 541-737-3832 FAX: 541-737-4001 -----Original Message----- From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:05 AM To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Subject: RE: st: quick question 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/ * * 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/