RE: st: AW: -findname- available from SSC

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I don't think it is ever going to be true that @ == missing(@). 

It's true that if an indicator were possibly ever one of .a ... .z that you would need syntax to catch that, and 

@ == 0 | @ == 1 | missing(@) 

and 

@ == 0 | @ == 1 | @ >= . 

would be two ways of so doing. 

For those bemused by the line noise of @ signs, @ is used in calls to -findname- to mean "any variable". 

-findname- is a user-written program from SSC, as the posting title implies. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Maarten buis

--- Martin Weiss wrote:
> Could a dummy be "extended missing", as well?
>
> *************
> clear*
> set obs 2
> gen byte mydummy=.a
> replace mydummy=. in 2
> findname, all(@ == 0 | @ == 1 | @ == .)
> *************
> 
> Would the syntax -findname, all(@ == 0 | @ == 1 | @ == missing(@))- 
> cover that, or rather: should it?

I don't think so, a program should just do exactly what you tell it 
to do. So if you wanted to include extended missing values you should 
have written: 

findname, all(@ == 0 | @ == 1 | @ >= .)


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