Re: st: Problems with program

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 10:24 AM 8/18/2005 +0100, you wrote:
> Richard,
> Many thanks for your suggestion. I tried using globals, but again it didn't
> seem to work. I'm attaching part of the code I'm using (it'll hopefully be
> 'readable'). The strange thing is that I'm just having problems with the
> outreg line of the program (STATA doesn't recognise the loop `var' in the
> name of the out file...).
> Thanks again for help and ideas!
> Andrea
So if I am following you correctly... `var' is correctly expanding to text, 
wood, paper, etc. throughout most of the program...but it does not expand 
correctly when you get to the outreg command???  Or does it expand 
correctly but you get an error?

I would suggest a couple of debugging steps: at or shortly before the point 
the program dies, add the commands

macro dir
set trace on

The first will show you the values of your global and local variables, and 
you can see if they are what you think they are.  The second will show what 
commands are actually being executed and hopefully identify what is 
stopping the program.

Also, as Rafa suggested, you may just want to switch to -estout-.  Even if 
it doesn't solve your immediate problem it is probably a better program for 
the long run and, unlike outreg, it is still being supported by its author.


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