At 04:14 PM 3/19/2004 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
Hi all,
I am a newbie to STATA and I have a question regarding "clear" and "drop
_all".
According to STATA, these two are supposed to be the same. However, if I
use "clear", even my matrices are deleted from the memory, as opposed to
"drop _all", which just deletes the variables but maintains matrices in
the memory. Can anyone tell me more about the differences between these
two commands?
Thank you very much!
-clear- does a lot more than -drop all- If you type -help drop- it says
clear is equivalent to typing
. version 8.2
. drop _all
. label drop _all (see help label)
. scalar drop _all (see help scalar)
. matrix drop _all (see help matrix)
. cluster drop _all (see help cluster)
. eq drop _all
. constraint drop _all (see help constraint)
. postutil clear (see help postutil)
. _return drop _all (see help _return)
. discard (see help discard)
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