It looks like you just forgot to put in a space after the if and before the
macro piece
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
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From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:17 PM
Subject: st: error in custom lincom program
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I am trying to make linear combinations of variables after a regression.
I
> need
> to save the estimated linear combs and the variance matrix for later
> hypothesis testing,
> so I can't just use lincom - it doesn't save results in enough detail.
>
> I don't understand what is wrong with this code:
<snip>
> - if `"`piece'"' != ":" {
> - error 198
> invalid syntax
> }
> r(198);
>
> .
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --Alex Cavallo
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