Re: st: re: general varlist in programs

[Kyle Hood <kyle.hood@yale.edu>]

I guess they must have improved things from v8 to v9, or there is 
something I am doing that is wrong.

The workaround that I am using is to employ a foreach var of varlist ... 
loop, concatenating the variable names into a local variable.  Maybe it 
would be best for me just use stata 9, though.

Thanks for the info.

Kyle

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Kit Baum wrote:


> sacrificial ewe
>
> Kyle said
>
> I am using Stata v.8, and I want to write a program like
>
> program progname
> syntax varlist
> ...
> end
>
> Where I can call it in a statement like
>
> progname y x* z*
>
> When I try to do so, it gives me an error "* invalid name".
>
> In the overall program that I am writing, I need to input different
> numbers of x and z variables, so it's not feasible for me to type them all
> out in the program call.
>
> This must be a simple fix, but I just can't find the solution in the help
> files.  Does anyone know what to do?
>
>
>
> I don't have any problem with this in Stata 9.2:
>
> prog drop _all
> prog testwild
> syntax varlist
> di "`varlist'"
> end
>
>
> . testwild pop*
> pop poplt5 pop5_17 pop18p pop65p popurban
>
> . testwild pop* m*
> pop poplt5 pop5_17 pop18p pop65p popurban medage marriage
>
>
>
> Can't say about Stata v8, as I no longer have a copy, but don't see why this 
> would change.
>
> Kit
>
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
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