st: CORRECTION TO HEADER: numlist abbreviations interpreted differently in egen's eqany S8?

["Marino, Jennifer" <jmarino@fhcrc.org>]

Header should have read "egen" not "egenmore". Apologies.

I'm working in Stata 8. 

Four ways of generating a numlist of whole positive integers are
supposed to be identical, but I'm finding they generate different
results with the same dataset in Stata 8.2.

egen nurshealthtech=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089 095 097 098 099 103/106 134
206/208 235 446 447) egen nurshealthtech2=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089 095
097 098 099 103:106 134 206:208 235 446 447) egen
nurshealthtech3=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089 095 097 098 099 103 to 106 134
206 to 208 235 446 447) egen nurshealthtech4=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089
095 097 098 099 103(1)106 134 206(1)208 235 446 447)

. count if nurshealthtech==1
  173

. count if nurshealthtech2==1
  156

. count if nurshealthtech3==1
  156

. count if nurshealthtech4==1
  173

Aren't these supposed to be the same? 

Yours anxiously,
Jen Marino


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