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Re: st: label variable: curious response
From
Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: label variable: curious response
Date
Thu, 30 May 2013 10:56:56 -0500
On May 30, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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);
Stata doesn't recognize your curly quotes. Change these to ASCII double quotes, and that'll fix the problem.
-- Phil
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