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Re: st: multiple merging
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: multiple merging
Date
Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:04:17 +0100
Not at all.
-help which- explains, or at least implies, that the characters *! at
the start of line produce a special kind of comment line that -which-
displays.
Programmers may use such lines in their programs. (You can use such
lines in do-files if you like, but I think the only consequence is
that you can find such lines more easily in a text editor.)
There is more in section 2b of
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/version2.html
I'd assert that most user-programmers use such comment lines. Their
use will be as high, or even higher, in Stata Journal-originating
programs as in those from SSC, and programmers maintaining independent
websites, such as Roger Newson, use *! pervasively too.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> do the characters *! mean non-SSC user written files?
*
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