Hi Martin,
yes I know that. I am mainly trying to understand whether there is a way to have a program that sees tempvars generated externally to the program itself. The summarize command is there just as an example.
Mario
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Re: read tempvars in user created programs
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:59:54 +0100
>
> Well,
>
> -summarize- never sees the -tempvar- that you intend to use; instead it sees
> nothing. If -su- sees nothing, it -summarize-s everything by default,
> including your -tempvar-...
>
> HTH
> Martin
> _______________________
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mario fiorini"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:44 AM
> Subject: st: read tempvars in user created programs
>
>
>> Dear all,
>> I have written a program to produce some test statistics. However, the
>> program does not seem able to use the temporary variables
>> that I've generated outside of it. For illustrative purposes consider the
>> following lines, where I define a program to summarize a tempvar (my real
>> problem is more complex and that's why I use a program).
>>
>> // ===================
>>
>> cap program drop progtempvar;
>> program define progtempvar;
>> args progvars;
>> di "`progvars'";
>> su `TV`progvars'';
>> end;
>>
>> sysuse auto;
>> tempvar TVprice; ge `TVprice'= price;
>> progtempvar price;
>>
>> // ======================
>>
>> The program would not recognize the temporary variable. Is there a way to
>> get around this without creating a non-temporary variable?
>> (that is why " reg price `TVprice' " work instead?) Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Mario
>> _________________________________________________________________
>> Your dream beach house escape for summer! Sign up for the Hotmail Road
>> Trip today.
>> http://www.ninemsn.com.au/hotmailroadtrip
>> *
>> * For searches and help try:
>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>>
>
>
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
_________________________________________________________________
Your dream beach house escape for summer! Sign up for the Hotmail Road Trip today.
http://www.ninemsn.com.au/hotmailroadtrip
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
