Re: st: Why was -index()- dropped?

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 25 Jan 2008, at 15:06, William Gould, StataCorp LP wrote:

> So we will quietly put -index()- back and make it work again.

Thank goodness! While I can easily imagine using a search-and-destroy  
text editor to replace all occurrences of 'strpos(' with 'index(' in  
every do-file on my machine, it's not safe to do this the other way  
around, and I wasn't looking forward to inspecting every occurrence  
of 'index(' before giving the go ahead to a replace.

I agree that strpos is far more user-readable, but for us old-timers  
(I realise I have my Stata 3 installation disks on the shelf) it will  
be hard to shake the index habit.


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