Re: st: unexpected end of file

[Sarah Elizabeth Edgington <sedging@ucla.edu>]

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Try sticking a blank line after end.  Depending 
on your text editor, there may not be an end of 
line character at the end of the line so Stata 
ignores it and never finds the "end" 
command.  Adding that blank line makes sure the 
text editor ends that line correctly.
-Sarah


At 08:02 PM 8/16/2010, you wrote:
> I removed all comments for the time being so 
> that's not an issue. I really don't
> know what's wrong. Why would I get the same error for this program as well:
>
> program define mean2
> version 10.1
>
> syntax varlist(min=1 max=2)
>
> foreach var in `varlist' {
> su `var',mean
> di as text "Mean for `var': " as res r(mean)
> }
>
> end
>
> . sysuse auto, clear
> . mean2 price mpg
> Mean for price: 6165.2568
> Mean for mpg: 21.297297
>
> when I save the program as mean2.ado, copy it to ado/updates, and say -mean2
> price mpg- Stata returns:
>
> unexpected end of file
> (error occurred while loading mean2.ado)
> r(612);
>
> DF Tilley
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 8:33:16 AM
> Subject: RE: st: unexpected end of file
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> A search for the term "unexpected end of file" would have yielded many hits
> in the Statalist archive. Among them:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg00321.html
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>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Ronan Conroy
> Sent: Freitag, 13. August 2010 14:26
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: unexpected end of file
>
> On 12 Lún 2010, at 18:21, Dani Tilley wrote:
>
> > I've wrote a Stata command and saved it as a .ado and copied on my ado
> > directory. When I start Stata and run the command, I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > unexpected end of file
> > (error occurred while loading command.ado)
>
> Check too for a unbalanced literal quotes or comments.
>
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