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This does not strike me as a bug. -help lookfor- clearly says there are no
options. -lookfor- accepts strings, i.e. uninterrupted sequences of
characters. The comma becomes part of whatever string it is attached to. So
I do find it weird that both versions produce the same output for you. Try
********
sysuse auto, clear
lookfor turn mpg
lookfor turn, mpg
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which produces different results.
HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Montag, 26. Januar 2009 22:39
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Betreff: st: minor bug in -lookfor-?
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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