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Re: st: Preventing expansion of variable name with -confirm-


From   "Michael S. Hanson" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Preventing expansion of variable name with -confirm-
Date   Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:04:10 -0400

On Jul 7, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Alex Ogan wrote:

How can I prevent Stata from expanding an argument varlist?
	[snip]

I want -confirm variable a- to have a non-zero return code, because the
variable name is not exactly "a".
A quick look at -help confirm- would likely have suggested the - exact- option. HTH.

-- Mike


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