st: Re: expect the unexpected

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

On Dec 19, 2003, at 2:33 AM, Allan wrote:

> Not from official updates, but I tried to get etime from the SSC this
> week.  Mozilla saved a file that ended with "end" but when I tried to
> use the routine Stata said "unexpected end of file".
>
> Expect the unexpected?
Try putting in a blank line at the end of file. If Stata does not see a 
line terminator on a line, it does not consider it part of the do-file. 
I have been bitten thusly when pasting into the do-file editor: you 
better hit return at the end of a line.

Kit

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