Re: st: using /// with parmby

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Wed, 27/10/10, Jamie Fagg wrote:
> The following command works fine.
> 
> parmby "<long command>", by(qinc) ...
<snip>
> However, it's rather long. I'd like to break it over one or
> maybe two lines. I tried this:
> 
> parmby "xi: mlogit walkcat <snip>  i.urbrur ///

The problem is that you tried to break the command inside a 
string. Stata sees parmby, than a " and than it thinks `lets
wait till I see another " as everything between them belongs
together in one string', that way it misses the ///, which
is the cause of your problem.

If I want to break up a command with such a long string I 
usually change the delimiter to ; by specifying the #delim
command:

#delim ;
<my command with long string
split out over multiple lines> ;
#delim cr


Hope this helps,
Maarten

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