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Re: st: sjlog with variable names containing underscores
From
Venable <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: sjlog with variable names containing underscores
Date
Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:28:10 -0500
Maarten, thanks very much for your suggestion. I will give it a try.
One question:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You can replace all these occurances of _ in Stata using
> the -filefilter- command, like so:
>
> *--------------------- begin example -------------------
> cd c:\temp
> use http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/notes/hsb2, clear
> clonevar race_clone = race
> sjlog using desc_hsb2, replace
> describe
> sjlog close, replace
>
> filefilter desc_hsb2.log.tex desc_hsb2_.log.tex, ///
> from("_") to("\BS_") replace
> *---------------------- end example ---------------------
>
Why is the argument of to() "\BS_" rather than "\_"?
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