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| From | brendan.halpin@ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | 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 -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F1-009 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie ULSociology on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/fjIK9t http://teaching.sociology.ul.ie/bhalpin/wordpress twitter:@ULSociology * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/