doedit issue

[Barry Quinn]

Hello
I am using the following code to create a .rat file after i have loaded some data from a stata file

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dedit(new) "C:\Users\barry\Documents\WinRATS 8\cudata.rat"
store lgasgr lgmemgr lgnosgr capr unemp unrate lggdpgr
save

I keep getting the following error message when running this code :

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Editing data file "C:\Users\barry\Documents\WinRATS 8\cudata.rat"
## SX13. "|ø" Is Not a Valid RATS Variable Name

Does anyone know why RATS doesn't recognise these variable names??

thanks

[moderator]

Is this with version 8.0? If so, I think you are running into a known issue with using STORE. That's been fixed, and the fix is included in the new 8.1 release. The university should have received its 8.1 CD by now, so try installing and running that--it should resolve the problem.

Regards,
Tom Maycock
Estima

[Barry Quinn]

Hi

I have updated to version 8.1 but now i get the following message when running the same code as my previous post

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## IO29. No file is currently being edited

thanks

[moderator]

You'll need to email us the program (and any source data files, if possible) so we can see exactly what you are doing. Send them to

support@estima.com

Thanks,
Tom Maycock

[Barry Quinn]

I seem to have resolved this issue now.

Thanks for you help