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Re: st: Program def syntax
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William Buchanan <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Program def syntax
Date
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:31:13 -0600
The same kind of "black sorcery" necessary for people to follow the guidance listed in the FAQ? All kidding aside, you really should include your -prog def- statement. If you're not defining the program with some form of -byable- property you may have other problems. And if you are passing a variable list to that option you may want to try enclosing the local macro inside of compound double quotes to prevent errors cause by expanding a macro with embedded strings.
HTH,
Billy
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> On Feb 25, 2014, at 4:19, "Johannes N. Blumenberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear statalist
>
> I got a small question regarding the program define syntax. I defined a program and set its syntax to
> syntax varlist [, BY(varlist) MOreoff]
>
> However, I am unable to access the varlist defined in "by". All that Stata returns to me is that the statement is true, when I try to display its content with the help of di `by'.
>
> When I put three variables into the by argument Stata returns "1.2". All reading in the guidelines etc did not help me.
>
> So, which kind of black sorcery is needed to return the variablelist defined in `by'? :)
>
> All the best,
> Johannes
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