st: egen with user-defined function

[Jan Barendregt <j.barendregt@sph.uq.edu.au>]

Hi all,


I'm trying to let egen to use a user-defined function. Here is what I'm doing:

do "C:\Ddrive\MattCooper\Data\test.do"

. capture program drop _grecordparse

. program define _grecordparse
  1. local bool=0
  2. local li=1
  3. local i=0
  4.   while `i' < RECORD_AXIS_COUNT {
  5.   if (substr(RECORD_AXIS_DATA,`li',4)>="A410") & (substr(RECORD_AXIS_DATA,`li',4)<="A419") local bool=
> `bool'+1 
  6.   local li=`li'+4
  7.   local i=`i'+1
  8.   }
  9.   gen `typlist' `varlist' = `bool'
 10. end             

. 
end of do-file

. egen sepsis=recordparse
unknown egen function recordparse()
r(133);


So I can't get egen to recognise my recordparse function. Any ideas?

I'm using Stata 11.2 on Windows

Thanks,

Jan


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Jan J Barendregt, MA, PhD
Assoc Prof of Epidemiological Modelling
School of Population Health, University of Queensland
Email: j.barendregt@sph.uq.edu.au
Skype: janbarendregt
Phone: +61 7 3365 5584


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