st: file write handle?

[Sean Shu <sshu@hkpr.on.ca>]

Hi, Here:

I need write the caculated result from my program together with some 
interpretation text into a text file. STATA seems that it is only 
capable of writing interpretation text into the specified text, but not 
for caculated result. Please look at the following code:

...
svymean dummy1 dummy2
  mat define b= e(b)
  mat define v= e(V)
  scalar lb1 = b[1,1] - invttail(e(df_r), 0.025)*sqrt(v[1,1])
  scalar ub1 = b[1,1] + invttail(e(df_r), 0.025)*sqrt(v[1,1])

file open handle using C:\temp\output.txt, write text
file write handle "RRFSS 2005 "
file write handle "Module objectives: "

file write handle "the upper confidence interval is: " lb1
file close handle

After running the program, I found that the value of the variable "lb1" 
is not written into the text file. So I wonder whether there is a way to 
 output the value of a variable into a text file.   Thanks!

Best regards

Sean Shu
Health Information Analyst
HKPR District Health Unit
200 Rose Glen Road
Port Hope, ON
L1a 3V6

905-885-9100 ext. 252






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