Thanks!
It works perfectly now.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Richard Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:44 PM 7/12/2008, Salah Mahmud wrote:
>>
>> Stata completely ignores the notab parameter when it is passed to the
>> program below.
>> On tracing, notab is always =="" no matter what. Change the parameter
>> name in the syntax statement to anything else and it works as
>> expected. Anybody knows what is going on?
>>
>> I'm running Stata MP v10 born 27 May 2008
>
> I've always considered that an odd and confusing feature of Stata syntax.
> See -help syntax- and search for the text "Warning: be careful if the
> first two letters of the option's name are no". Read that and the next
> section entitled "option_descriptor optionally_off".
>
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