RE: st: Parse question

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Fair enough

But of course the most elegant version of charcount.ado would be 
something that incorporated the -subinstr- approach...

At 02:34 PM 9/22/2005, you wrote:

> Well,
> Both have advantages.
> Imagine storing charcount as ado file.
> Then, typing "charcount "`loc'" "a"" will
> be shorter than the first solution.
> But I guess in a do file setting, there is
> more fun and clarty typing:
> "local junk : subinstr local loc ";" "" , all count(local num)"
> because you see what's going on.
> I like both, for my part.
> Anyway, you two guys are amazing.
> Best regards.
> Amadou.
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> At 12:59 PM 9/22/2005, you wrote:
> >Nick W's is a better solution than mine. (I'm horrified
> >that I forgot something I have used many times.)
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> >Nick
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> > > Thanks to both Nick Cox and Nick Winter.
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