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Re: st: -confirm variable- does not accept varlist (wildcards)
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: -confirm variable- does not accept varlist (wildcards)
Date
Thu, 5 Sep 2013 16:58:28 +0100
Sorry, poor wording. I was relying too much on context. I use wildcard
varlists all the time; I've just never wanted to use them within
-confirm- (that I can remember).
Nick
[email protected]
On 5 September 2013 16:29, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> I'm intrigued by your last sentence in #2. Are you've saying you've never had occasion to use wildcards in varlists, or that there are alternatives? For example, suppose you wanted to do something with all system-generated variables _*, knowing that these might be scattered around the dataset and not contiguous. How would you do that without wildcards?
Nick Cox
> On the question:
>
> 1. It seems that you are right. -confirm- does not support wildcard varlists.
>
> 2. But I've never noticed this before. That just means what it says, but in 20 years of writing a fair number of programs, I've never wanted to try out a wildcard varlist.
On 5 September 2013 15:30, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> . sysuse auto, clear
>> (1978 Automobile Data)
>>
>> . confirm var m*
>> m ambiguous abbreviation
>> r(111);
>>
>> . unab m : m*
>>
>> . confirm var `m'
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