I would guess that the bug is in your code and not in Stata, but I can't
tell from the snippet provided. All I can tell is that, given that `j'
evaluates to 1, Stata did not find a global macro named ${`1'} so it left a
blank there when it ran your code.
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terra Curtis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:02 AM
Subject: RE: st: -nl- error message
> So I ran my code after setting trace on ('set trace on') and I think I may
> have found a bug in STATA itself. I saved the trace as a log file and the
> part concerning the invalid syntax appears here:
>
> Iteration 0: - if "`trace'"!="" { noi di }
> = if ""!="" { noi di }
> - }
> - local j 1
> - while `j' <= `np' {
> = while 1 <= 23 {
> - local old_pj = ${``j''}
> = local old_pj =
> invalid syntax
>
> It appears that the problem lies deeper than in my .do file. The last
line
> before "invalid syntax" shold report that old_pj equals 1 (i.e. = local
> old_pj = 1). Any ideas if this is a bug, and if so, how to go about
fixing
> it?
>
> Thanks,
> Terra
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