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Re: st: RE: troubleshooting positional arguments
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: RE: troubleshooting positional arguments
Date
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:17:21 +0100
I think Phil has hit the nail on the head. Incidentally, note that
local y `1'
local w `2'
local x `3'
could be replaced by
args y w x
Nick
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Philip Ryan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Laszlo
>
> On my screen, the right single quote after 3 in this line:
>
> local x `3’
>
> appears to be a different character from the right single quotes delimiting the other positional macros.
>
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of László Sándor
> Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2012 10:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: troubleshooting positional arguments
>
> Dear all,
>
> I hope I am just missing the obvious, but please help me why the code below does not parse the third argument after a tokenize. I am pretty sure I am doing standard things here. The relevant part of the trace follows.
>
> - tokenize `varlist'
> = tokenize y t psc
> - error ("`4'"!="" & "`psc'"!="")
> = error (""!="" & "psc"!="")
> - local y `1'
> = local y y
> - local w `2'
> = local w t
> - local x `3’
> - ereturn clear
>
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