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Re: st: including parentheses in stata helpfile
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: including parentheses in stata helpfile
Date
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:50:51 +0100
I have never heard { } being called parentheses before
For a comprehensive, and also informative and entertaining, list see
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html
Nick
[email protected]
On 11 June 2013 05:59, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
> help smcl##ascii gives:
>
> {c -(} { (left curly brace)
> {c )-} } (right curly brace)
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Matthias Schonlau
>> How Do I put a parenthesis in a (user-written) stata help file example? My helpfile includes this line:
>> forval i=1/5 open bracket
>> but should read
>> forval i=1/5 {
>> The problem is that
>> {p 4 8 2}{inp:. forval i=1/5 open bracket }
>> Already contains a }. Thanks for suggestions!
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