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st: Comment oddity with #delimit ;
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[email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
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st: Comment oddity with #delimit ;
Date
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:28:21 +0100
Consecutive comments can cause a problem when using semi-colons to
delimit:
+- test.do -----------------------------------------------------------------
#delimit ;
di "test one";
// Comment line one;
// Comment line two;
di "test two";
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do-ing this yeilds the following:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
. do test.do
. #delimit ;
delimiter now ;
. di "test one";
test one
. // Comment line one;
> // Comment line two;
unrecognized command: / invalid command name
r(199);
end of do-file
r(199);
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Semi-colons at the end of comments have no effect.
Dropping either of the comments resolves the problem.
Reverting to -#delimit cr- resolves the problem.
Using C-style comments (/* ... */) resolves the problem.
This is Stata 11, under Linux.
Am I missing something or is this a bug?
Brendan
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