RE: st: weight option after syntax

["Jun Xu" <mystata@hotmail.com>]

That solves my problem. Thanks a million!

Jun Xu
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
Indiana University at Bloomington

> From: "Scott Merryman" <smerryman@kc.rr.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: RE: st: weight option after syntax
> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:41:58 -0500
>
> I suspect the problem is that "namelist" requires that the names listed use
> the standard naming convention and names cannot begin with "["  If you use
> the "if" option then parser knows that what follows cannot be part of
> "namelist"
>
>
> One alternative is to use "anylist"
>
> program mycmd, rclass byable(recall)
> version 9.1
> syntax anything  [if] [in] [pweight]
> 	gettoken subcmd anything: anything
> 	gettoken lhs anything: anything
>  	loc rhs `anything'
> 	di in r "`subcmd'"
> 	di in r "`lhs'"
> 	di in r "`rhs'"
> 	di in r "`weight'"
> 	di in r "`exp'"
> end
>
> Which now works:
>
>
> . mycmd fubar price mpg  weight [anyhoo = (American) anyhow]  [pw = fore]
> fubar
> price
> mpg  weight [anyhoo = (American) anyhow]
> pweight
> = fore
>
> Hope this helps,
> Scott
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jun Xu
> > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 5:24 PM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: RE: st: weight option after syntax
> >
> > Sorry that I forgot to mention that I am using Stata 9.1.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jun Xu
> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > Department of Sociology
> > Indiana University at Bloomington
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "Jun Xu" <mystata@hotmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > >To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > >Subject: st: weight option after syntax
> > >Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:14:19 -0500
> > >
> > >I think I must miss something important here. I am trying to write a
> > >command that simply invokes a stata command repeatedly and collect some
> > >eret information. The following is the very beginning part of it (also
> > >where the problem lies), and I am having problems with the [pw] option. 
> I
> > >inserted display commands to check if I am getting macro's that I want.
> > Any
> > >thoughts? Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > >==========================
> > >  cap program drop mycmd
> > >   program mycmd, rclass byable(recall)
> > >    version 8.0
> > >    syntax namelist [if] [in] [pw]
> > >    gettoken subcmd namelist: namelist
> > >    gettoken lhs namelist: namelist
> > >    loc rhs "`namelist'"
> > >
> > >    di in r "`subcmd'"
> > >    di in r "`lhs'"
> > >    di in r "`rhs'"
> > >    di in r "`weight'"
> > >    di in r "`exp'"
> > >
> > >  end
> > >
> > >============================
> > >
> > >Everytime I launch the command by specifying weight option alone, I
> > always
> > >get an error message. Note that lwg is a real variable name and I have 
> a
> > >working data set in memory.
> > >
> > >******
> > >. mycmd this is another issue [pw=lwg]
> > >[ invalid name
> > >r(198);
> > >
> > >end of do-file
> > >r(198);
> > >******
> > >
> > >However, if I work off a real data set and specify if condition before
> > >[pw=lwg], everything works fine. Note here k5 is a real variable.
> > >
> > >******
> > >. mycmd this is another issue if k5==3 [pw=lwg]
> > >this
> > >is
> > >another issue
> > >pweight
> > >= lwg
> > >******
>
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