Nick Cox wrote:
Dots are not allowed in variable names. Period.
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Just a technical clarification: so-called raised dots *are* allowed, not
that I would recommend using them.
Joseph Coveney
. set obs 1
obs was 0, now 1
. generate y`=char(183)'a = 1
. describe
Contains data
obs: 1
vars: 1
size: 8 (99.9% of memory free)
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storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
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y�a float %9.0g
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Sorted by:
Note: dataset has changed since last saved
. foreach var of varlist _all {
2. display in smcl as text "`var'"
3. }
y�a
.
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