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Re: st: Why was -index()- dropped?
This thread has clarified for me something (almost) completely
unrelated. For years I've been wondering what "stroke" has to do with
string variables being acceptable; only just now do i realize that
"strok", as is "markout varlist, strok" is short for "string ok".
Duh.
-Nick Winter
Ronan Conroy wrote:
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.
P Before printing, think about the environment
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