Re: st: Dots in the matrix equation names

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 10:11 PM 2/27/2006, Zurab Sajaia wrote:
> In my program I need to do some manipulations on the output,
> keeping the equation names. but I couldn't find any way of
> enclosing string in quotes to assign equation names containing
> dots to a matrix.
>
> Is there a trick to write names with special symbols or it's just
> mlogit thing?
I asked tech support about this almost a year ago.  It is an mlogit 
thing, other programs don't get to do that.  The period (.), the 
dollar sign ($), and the colon(:) can't be used in equation names.

If you are having trouble with programs bombing because of illegal 
equation names, then check out

help _labels2names

Underscore is a legit character, so you might want to use that instead of dots.


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