Your title says e(wtype), your post says e(wexp).
Try
tokenize "`e(wexp)'", parse("=")
local wexp "`2'"
_or_
local wexp "`: word 2 of `e(wexp)''"
and then
di "`wexp'"
Nick
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Wolfgang Langer
> I have written a small program to calculate the
> goodness-of-fit-chi2-test after estimating a WLS -regression
> modell for
> tabulated data (GSK-approach). How can I extract the varname from the
> e(wexp) container to use it in my program? Typing "dis
> e(wexp)" I get
> only the expression "=var name of weighting variable" but not the
> varnme itself. I need this to formulate my program gofchi2
> mor generally.
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