Re: st: unexpected end of file

[Zhengfeng Guo <gzfsadie@gmail.com>]

your code, saved this as mean2.ado.  I checked:

sysuse auto, clear
mean2 price mpg
It worked well and I did not get any error message.

Sadie


On 8/16/2010 11:02 PM, Dani Tilley wrote:
> I removed all comments for the time being so that's not an issue. I really don't
> know what's wrong. Why would I get the same error for this program as well:
>
> program define mean2
> version 10.1
>
> syntax varlist(min=1 max=2)
>
> foreach var in `varlist' {
> su `var',mean
> di as text "Mean for `var': " as res r(mean)
> }
>
> end
>
> . sysuse auto, clear
> . mean2 price mpg
> Mean for price: 6165.2568
> Mean for mpg: 21.297297
>
> when I save the program as mean2.ado, copy it to ado/updates, and say -mean2
> price mpg- Stata returns:
>
> unexpected end of file
> (error occurred while loading mean2.ado)
> r(612);
>
> DF Tilley
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Weiss<martin.weiss1@gmx.de>
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 8:33:16 AM
> Subject: RE: st: unexpected end of file
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> A search for the term "unexpected end of file" would have yielded many hits
> in the Statalist archive. Among them:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg00321.html
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>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Ronan Conroy
> Sent: Freitag, 13. August 2010 14:26
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: unexpected end of file
>
> On 12 Lún 2010, at 18:21, Dani Tilley wrote:
>
> > I've wrote a Stata command and saved it as a .ado and copied on my ado
> > directory. When I start Stata and run the command, I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > unexpected end of file
> > (error occurred while loading command.ado)
> Check too for a unbalanced literal quotes or comments.
>
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