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Re: st: RE: Bug in comment - and comment on comment
From
Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Bug in comment - and comment on comment
Date
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:46:38 +0200
Am Donnerstag, den 23.09.2010, 11:02 +0100 schrieb Allan Reese (Cefas):
> Stata documentation is explicit as quoted: "What appears inside /* */ is
> ignored." (help comment).
Well, but your code was "/* a /* x */" . The question here is what is
inside "/* */" and what is not. Is it "x" or "a /* x"?
> On reading the documentation, I can't find a warning that end-of-file of
> a DO file does not act as end-of-line. Hence it's a *feature* if you
> use the DO-file editor and do not put the end-of-line on the last line
> that it will not execute.
> Type
> di "1"
> di "2"
> di "3"<cursor here>
>
> and save as demo.do. Then -do demo- gives
> . do demo
>
> . di "1"
> 1
>
> . di "2"
> 2
>
> .
> end of do-file
>
> Remember to put some blank lines at the end of all DO files!
I don't know if this somewhere in the manual. However, at least the
Stata textbook that I know best ("Data Anlysis Using Stata") explains
this in great detail in chapter 2 on "Do-Files".
Uli
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