Thanks a lot for your reply and sorry for bothering
you again. Still I can't work it out. I just don't
know how to run a programe. I write such things like:
prog define Nick
display 'Hi there'
end
in a do-file and save the do-file, then I type
'do.....' in the command box to do the do-file, is it
right?
Thanks
Xiaotang
--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are two distinct steps:
>
> 1. Define the program.
>
> 2. Run it.
>
> Here is another example:
>
> . program define xiaotang
> 1. di "Hi there!"
> 2. end
>
> . xiaotang
> Hi there!
>
> I defined a program called "xiaotang";
> then I ran it. (This is possible because there
> is no official Stata command called -xiaotang-.)
>
> See [U] 21 Programming Stata.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > xiaotang li
> >
> > Thanks for your kind help. I can simply do the
> > following just by running do "C:\.....\.do" in the
> > command box. But still don't understand how to run
> the
> > program. I define the program in the do-file and
> run
> > it by typing 'do....' in the command box, but
> seems it
> > is not the correct way. I can't find related
> > information in the 'help'.
> >
> > matrix A = J(3,3,1)
> > matrix list A
> > forval i = 1/4 {
> > matrix A = 2 * A
> > matrix li A
> > }
> >
>
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