Re: st: Problem with tempvar __000000 (still confused)

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

I agree with Enzo. This has happened to me on a few occasions.

My practical solution was:

use myfile, clear
drop __*

after which I could use the data file without an error.

Although it is not a big problem, it shouldn't happen.

Fred


At 10:40 AM 6/22/2004, you wrote:
> Thanks to both Tom and Nick.
>
> This message shows how to see the error message (part 1) and how this
>
> I get
> __000000 already defined
> variable __000000 not found

Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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