Hello Joseph,
I totally agree. You are right.
Sergiy.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Joseph Coveney<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sergiy Radyakin wrote (excerpted):
>
> 2) In the "Data Browser" (for sysuse auto), I would expect "Filter by
> expression" condition t<20 to work, but Stata responds: ""Filter by
> expression:" is invalid". Condition trunk<20 works fine. Seems like
> here Stata can't unabbreviate variable names like it does everywhere
> else.
>
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> Sergiy, I tried that and I think that the hitch might be because there are two
> variables in the auto.dta data set that begin with *t*. Filter-by-expression
> with tr < 20 works fine. As does tr < 20 & tu > 35. I avoid using variable
> abbreviations for reasons like this--I've been stung too many times.
>
> Joseph Coveney
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