Yes, what is happening is your list of global parameters has a mismatch...
For example:
. global S_1 "B0 B1 B2"
. global B0=1
. global B7=1
. global B2=1
Note B1 expected but B7 defined.
Tom
Thomas J. Steichen
[email protected]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Michael Blasnik
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:17 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: -nl- error message
>
>
> 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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