st: Re: What is wrong with this syntax?

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

...

You need to -tokenize- your varlist to get them properly into local macros 
1,2,3,etc.. Otherwise, 1,2,3 will hold command line "tokens" which will include 
adjacent commas.

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Hood" <kyle.hood@yale.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: st: What is wrong with this syntax?



> I have attempting to write a command (in version 8), with the following syntax:
>
> program hhk, eclass
> syntax varlist(min=3 max=3)[, P(real 0.5)]
> di "`1'"
> di "`2'"
> di "`3'"
> ...
>
> If I use the following call:
>
> . hhk a b c, p(0.3)
>
> I get an error (when I first try to use variable c), and the program displays
>
> a
> b
> c,
>
> Why is it picking up the comma in the third variable?  It doesn't do that for 
> built-in stata commands.
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
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