Re: st: here's another thing driving me nuts

[Scott Talkington <talkings@gmu.edu>]

Never mind, I think I have this figured out.  The program works fine 
with arguments, so suspect the problem was with the choice of local 
variable names and entering them with the "loc" command to create 
macros.  Arguments is an easier way to go, and more like what I wanted 
anyway.


On 3/7/2011 11:13 PM, Scott Talkington wrote:
> Here I've defined the local variables x and y but the following line 
> within a program generates a syntax error while the same thing from 
> the command line does not:
>
> table var1 if var2~=`y', c(mean `x' n `x')
>
> in this case y is a number and x is a variable name.
>
> I don't understand why the program line generates an error and the 
> command line doesn't, where they're exactly the same??
>
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