Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu> writesw,
> [...] my understanding was that values of c() scalars were to be referenced
> in Mata using st_numscalar() and st_strscalar(). Yet while this appears to
> work for numeric scalars, it doesn't seem to work for string scalars:
>
> . mata: st_numscalar("c(SE)")
> 1
>
> . mata: st_strscalar("c(byteorder)")
>
Phil has discovered a bug.
Another way to obtain c() values is using Mata's -c()- function:
. mata: c("SE")
1
. mata: c("byteorder")
"lohi"
There was nothing wrong with Phil's st_numscalar() and st_strscalar()
approach, both are intended to work.
-- Bill
wgould@stata.com
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