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Re: st: Minor bug in -labvalclone- by NJC
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Minor bug in -labvalclone- by NJC
Date
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:00:03 +0000
In principle, yes. In practice, -ssc desc labutil- does give an overview.
Nick
[email protected]
On 25 November 2013 10:29, Roger B. Newson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks to Nick for the -labutil- package. It might be even better if there
> was a unified help file -labutil.sthlp-, so users could see a list of all
> the modules, and what they do, in one place.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
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> On 23/11/2013 16:10, Nick Cox wrote:
>>
>> <>
>>
>> The bug Sergiy reported is now fixed in the version of -labvalclone-
>> on SSC. (-labvalclone- is part of the -labutil- package.)
>>
>> Thanks to Sergiy for pointing this out and Kit Baum for putting it up.
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On 22 November 2013 01:04, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks to Sergiy for the public heads-up.
>>>
>>> I will get it fixed.
>>> Nick
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 November 2013 00:45, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bug in -labvalclone- by NJC
>>>> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/labvalclone.ado
>>>>
>>>> ===Example:
>>>> clear
>>>> label define a 1 "US" 2 "UK" 3 "UA"
>>>> labvalclone a aa
>>>>
>>>> ===Output:
>>>> unrecognized command: laabel
>>>> r(199);
>>>>
>>>> ===Why does it happen:
>>>> Because replacing blindly code is not safe. Nick is trying to check
>>>> for this problem by having a safety check of the old argument earlier
>>>> in the program:
>>>> if "`old'" == "label" | "`old'" == "define"
>>>> but later is doing a replacement of a SUBSTRING, not a WORD-by-word
>>>> replacement.
>>>>
>>>> ===Suggested fix:
>>>> Simply flank both args (old and new) with spaces:
>>>> local line: subinstr local line " `old' " " `new' "
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Sergiy Radyakin
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