Possibly, the authors of levelsof thought it not worth the effort, as it
is trivial to add 1 extra line. As in
levelsof educ, local(educs)
local neduc: word count `educs'
or even as in
levelsof educ
local neduc: word count `r(levels)'
The extended function "word count" is described under
whelp extended_fcn
along with many others.
Roger
Roger B Newson
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
Sent: 05 August 2008 15:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: question about -levelsof-
I find -levelsof- very useful, but a while back
decided it would be more useful if it also returned
the number of levels.
When I looked at the -ado- file, it seemed like
a trivial hack; the local macro -nvals- was already
there, so I just added
return local nvals `nvals'
This seems to work, yet seems much too easy; but
looking through the code for a reason this
might sometimes fail, I couldn't find one.
So, my question is, is there a reason -levelsof-
doesn't return -nvals-? I use it so often, I worry
that maybe I'm setting myself up for disaster.
thanks,
Jeph
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