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Re: st: Bug with destring or operator error?


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Bug with destring or operator error?
Date   Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:01:34 +0100

I guess that somehow your dataset has a variable called __000001.
That's the first thing to check.

Nick
[email protected]


On 22 August 2013 18:48, Ben Hoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having trouble with destring in an ado.  When I run the ado I get the
> following error:
>
>
> . destring blkgrp, g(bgtemp) force
> __000001 already defined
> r(110);
>
> end of do-file
>
> r(110);
>
> But after I get this error, if I just run the destring command again, it
> works fine:
> . destring blkgrp, g(bgtemp) force
> blkgrp contains nonnumeric characters; bgtemp generated as int
> (44 missing values generated)
>
>
> I have tried a number of different workarounds to keep the error from
> happening but to no avail.  Obvioulsy the point is to avoid manually coming
> and rerunning the second half of the ado.  Any ideas?
>
> Here is the full ado:
>
> *=============== START ==============
> cd "B:\OtherDatabase\pv_prop_2\data\regest"
> use bgreg.dta, clear //to call up the data
> g blkgrp=substr(parm,4,.) if substr(parm,1,3)=="pv_"  // the extract the
> number from the string
> destring blkgrp, replace force
>
> /*
> I also tried the following variations
>
> With or without .replace blkgrp=trim(blkgrp) before destring
>
> Instead use
> destring blkgrp, g(bgtemp) force
> drop blkgrp
> rename bgtemp blkgrp
> */
> *========== END ==============
>
> Ben Hoen
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