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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: parse |
| Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:04:32 +0100 |
If that is all that is relevant to -parse-, then those two lines are equivalent to syntax varlist(min(2)) In other cases, several statements typed before -parse- in a program might affect how it worked. The job of -parse- was to check and interpret what was typed on the command line in view of the syntax declared. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Wincent I have come across a program with these lines local varlist "req min(2)" parse "`*'" Parse is an obsolete command, and I cannot find much reference on it. Can anyone elaborate a bit on what it does? * * 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/