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Re: st: unconventional use of if condition
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: unconventional use of if condition
Date
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:15:41 -0400
tashi lama <[email protected]>:
At the very top of the help is:
if exp { or if exp single_command
Please read the help files more carefully.
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?ifcmd
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, tashi lama <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In the fetchyahooquotes.ado written by Mehmet F. Diche, Ph.D. and John Levendis, Ph.D., I encountered following use of if
>
> if ("`start'"!="") drop if date<(date("`start'", "DMY"))
> if ("`end'"!="") drop if date>(date("`end'", "DMY"))
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>
>
> I was under the impression and the documentation rightly says to precede 'if' with braces ("{") followed by command in the next line. Sth like this
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>
>
> if x==4 {
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> .....
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> }
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>
>
> Could someone explain me this?
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