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Re: st: including parentheses in stata helpfile


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   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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