Re: Re: st: RE: Help with loops

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Interesting! I agree with Joseph. I wouldn't recommend exploiting this.
There is no way of knowing, without extensive testing, exactly how 
reliable it is across platforms, versions and national or local 
idiosyncrasies of installation.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

Joseph Coveney

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.


. 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)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              storage  display     value
variable name   type   format      label      variable label
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
y�a             float  %9.0g
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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