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RE: st: assign several lines of syntax to local?
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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<[email protected]>
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RE: st: assign several lines of syntax to local?
Date
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:58:47 +0200
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It is not a good idea to use an official command name for the -local-, anyway...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maarten buis
Sent: Donnerstag, 12. August 2010 17:42
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: assign several lines of syntax to local?
--- On Thu, 12/8/10, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> Strange, I thought this would work:
>
> ***************
> sysuse auto
> local test count ; list in 1 ;
> #delimit ;
> `test'
> ***************
>
> but it doesn't produce so much as an error message. Why
> not?
That probably has to do with the way Stata parses a line.
My guess would be that the following is happening:
Stata collects a line till it sees a ;
only after that does it start evaluating the locals
Since you did not put a ; after `test', Stata never
even started evaluating the local, and so never saw
the contents of `test', and thus did not produce an
error message.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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