RE: st: Setting a missing value in a generic context

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Thanks to everyone who responded on this issue.

I would concur with Nick that you need to be careful with -capture-, in 
that it can, as he put it, eat errors other than the ones you are expecting.

-- David

At 11:07 AM 3/8/2005 +0000, you wrote:

> Note that the -capture- can eat other
> errors too, most obviously that `v'
> holds an illegal variable name or that
> `v' doesn't exist as a variable. However,
> the obvious retort to that is to ensure
> this code is used in a context in which
> `v' does pick up the name of an existing variable.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Seb Buechte
>
> > What I suggest is certainly not elegant yet it is simple and
> > should work, too:
> >
> > capture replace `v'=.
> > capture replace `v'=""
> [...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404
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