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Re: st: -generate- and run time contingencies
"Nick Winter" <[email protected]> wrote
I am reminded again that it would be nice if the -replace- command somehow
left behind the number of changes it makes (which it displays, but does
not leave for a program to pick up.) It's been discussed before on
statalist I think, and making -replace- r-class would likely break all
kinds of programs, but still it would be handy to be able to get to that
somehow....
I have also suggested this feature, although not by making -replace- into
r-class, but perhaps making it s-class, or place the number of values
changed in c(), or even in a global macro (remember $S_...?).
Although I think most problems, such as the original example given in this
thread, have better solutions than looping repeatedly until a condition
changes, there are some problems that still seem to require it. The
addition of the itrim() function (thanks!) solved my most common need for
such looping, but there are still some cases where loops are required, and
could execute a bit faster, if you didn't have to add in a count command.
It just seems very un-Stataish to have a value show up in the results window
and have no direct way to access it.
Michael Blasnik
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