st: Strange -xi- behavior when naming new variables

[Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez <perez.jorge@ur.edu.co>]

Dear Statalist.

I have been getting strange results using -xi- in conjuction with -qreg-

I ran the following code to get some quantile regression estimates:

glo cont "personas_hogar edad edadsq"
glo cat "trabajo_permanente ocupacion actividad_empresa
tipo_trabajador sexo ultimo_grado_estudios"
glo ccat ""
foreach x in $cat {
	glo ccat "$ccat i.`x'"
}
forv x=0.05(0.05)0.9501 {
	xi: qreg lsalario_real_mes treatment i.area2 i.trimestre $cont $ccat
[fw=fex], nolog quantile(`x')
	est save "cqte_c_fex_nob_`x'.ster", replace
}

The regression for quantile 0.75 did not converge and the loop ended
with a break, so I skipped that quantile, and reran the last loop
starting at the 0.8 quantile, i.e.

forv x=0.8(0.05)0.9501 { ....

At this point, -xi- changed the convention for naming the variables.
Since I saved the estimates, I got the command that was issued
everytime by typing:

glo a: dir . files "cqte_c_fex_nob_*"
foreach x in $a {
	est use `x'
	di "`x' ***********************************"
	di ""
	di e(cmdline)
	di ""
}

And got:

cqte_c_fex_nob_.7000000000000001.ster ***********************************

qreg lsalario_real_mes treatment _Iarea2_* _Itrimestre_*
personas_hogar edad edadsq  _Itrabajo_p_* _Iocupacion_* _
> Iactividad_* _Itipo_trab_* _Isexo_* _Iultimo_gr_* [fw=fex], nolog quantile(.7000000000000001)

cqte_c_fex_nob_.8.ster ***********************************

qreg lsalario_real_mes treatment _Iarea2_* _Itrimestre_*
personas_hogar edad edadsq  _Itrabajo_p_* _Iocupaciona* _
> Iactividad_* _Itipo_trab_* _Isexo_* _Iultimo_gr_* [fw=fex], nolog quantile(.8)

Notice the difference between the two commands: _Iocupacion_* and
_Iocupaciona*_ !!!!

Is this something related to some variables left behind by -xi- when
the break occurred? Could this be a bug?

Thank you,

_______________________
Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez

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