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Re: st: RE: Detect use of svy: prefix
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Detect use of svy: prefix
Date
Wed, 25 May 2011 12:50:12 -0500
Could you use - _on_colon_parse- on the command and then check if the
macro s(before) exists and is equal to "svy" ?
For example:
capture _on_colon_parse svy: mean x
sreturn list
Scott
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Richard Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:25 AM 5/25/2011, David Radwin wrote:
>>
>> It seems to be the case that e(prefix) will include the value "svy" after
>> running a svy: command. So you could try something like this
>>
>> . if strpos("`e(prefix)'","svy")==0 error
>>
>> adding an error number if you care to.
>
> Thanks David. However, I don't think e(prefix) is ereturned until after your
> program has been run, so I don't think that works.
>
>
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