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Re: st: is it possible to redefine a character to write more than one stata command a single line
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: is it possible to redefine a character to write more than one stata command a single line
Date
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:39:16 +0200
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Pradipto Banerjee
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Let's say, I have two or more Stata lines
>
> by xxx: gen yyy=zzz
> by xxx1: gen yyy1=zzz1
> by xxx2: gen yyy2=zzz2
>
> Is there anything equivalent of an "operator override" in Stata such that say I can define ";" to interpret a carriage return?
>
> For example, in my ado or do codes, I would like to write in a single line
>
> by xxx: gen yyy=zzz ; by xxx1: gen yyy1=zzz1 ; by xxx2: gen yyy2=zzz2
>
> and have Stata interprets the " ; " as the carriage return.
No, there are various options for breaking up a command so it can span
multiple lines, but there is nothing for the reverse case.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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