My previous posting on this was incomplete. It is not that = is replaced by
its ASCII equivalent 3D, but by =3D , just as ? (question mark) might have
been replaced by =3F and not by 3F. So = becomes =3D and == becomes =3D=3D .
So the mystery is not in the "multiplication of =3D", but in why the equal
sign was badly translated and the question mark made it through. I suppose
some mysteries are best left unsolved.
--H�kon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Rising [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 20. september 2002 19:15
> To: Stata Listserve
> Subject: Re: st: Huh?
>
>
> On 9/20/02 10:49, baum wrote
>
> >
> >--On Friday, September 20, 2002 2:33 -0400 Tom wrote:
> >
> >> The problem lies in the use of the assignment operator "=3D"
> >> rather than the is equal operator "=3D=3D".
> >>
> >>> 1. if "`1'"=3D"?"{
>
> I think there is a translation problem here. 3D is the ASCII
> code for =,
> so perhaps this program was moved from machine to another in
> a fashion
> that the text encodings were lost.
>
> If translated properly, this would read
> if "`1'"=="?"{
> which would compare local macro 1 to a question mark.
>
> >>
> >> Change the line to:
> >>
> >> 1. if "`1'"=3D=3D"?"{
> >>
>
> This is really mysterious, since the =3D has multiplied!
>
> Bill
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