st: Saving to locals in Mata

["Julian Reif" <julian.reif@bateswhite.com>]

Hi,

I am having trouble saving to locals using Mata. The following ADO code demonstrates my problem:

***example.ado code***

	program example
		version 9.2

		mata: example()
	end

	mata:
		void example()
		{
			t = "string"
			st_local("my_local",t)
			stata(`" di "my_local is `my_local'""')
		}	
	end

***end example.ado code***

my_local is displayed as blank instead of "string". However, if I run the three lines of mata code inside of example() interactively, my_local has the contents "string". Why does this work interactively but not in my program? How should this have been coded so that it works?

The same problem happens if I use globals instead of locals.

Julian


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