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Re: st: label variable: curious response
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William Buchanan <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: label variable: curious response
Date
Thu, 30 May 2013 08:53:55 -0700
It might be an issue with your character encoding. Notice that in both examples you have two sets of right double-quotation marks. Changing that might affect things.
HTH,
Billy
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On May 30, 2013, at 8:38, Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm scratching my head over the following error message:
>
> . sysuse nlsw88, clear
> . gen wt = int(uniform()*10)
> . la var south ”Lives in the south”
>
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
>
> Even though the Help Label instructions show examples of labels containing spaces, that error message is not reported if I change the command to:
> . la var south ”Lives”
>
> I'd appreciate any guidance.
>
> Best wishes,
> Michael McCulloch, LAc MPH PhD
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