Hi
I'd just found the following peculiarity in Mata when passing string colvector or vector arguments to functions (This is done in Stata 14):
Inside function test I define an empty string colvector v and validates that this is true.
Then I add a row, and now is the orgtype a scalar instead, however it got 1 row and 1 column.
How can that be? What have I done wrong?
I'd just found the following peculiarity in Mata when passing string colvector or vector arguments to functions (This is done in Stata 14):
Code:
: function test() {
> string colvector v
> v = J(0,1,"") // Empty start value
> eltype(v), orgtype(v) // Validate before
> rows(v), cols(v) // Validate before
> v = v \ "add row value"
> eltype(v), orgtype(v) // Validate after
> rows(v), cols(v) // Validate after
> }
: test()
1 2
+-------------------------+
1 | string colvector |
+-------------------------+
1 2
+---------+
1 | 0 1 |
+---------+
1 2
+-------------------+
1 | string scalar |
+-------------------+
1 2
+---------+
1 | 1 1 |
+---------+
Then I add a row, and now is the orgtype a scalar instead, however it got 1 row and 1 column.
How can that be? What have I done wrong?
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