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st: minor bug in -lookfor-?


From   Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: minor bug in -lookfor-?
Date   Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:38:55 -0500


For what it's worth, I was surprised to discover that

 lookfor myvar, fullnames

produces the same result as

 lookfor myvar fullnames

That is, if you add any options to -lookfor-, it ignores the
comma and treats the options as search strings.

On the one hand, the documentation clearly indicates there
are no options. On the other, it often happens that I try
options that I think might work and expect Stata complain
if they are invalid.

In this case, I abbreviated -fullnames- to -fu-, and was finding variables that in no way matched -myvar-. Took me a while to
puzzle out.


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