Below is a list of readreplace tests. Unless marked otherwise, all tests are implemented in the cscript. Each test is associated with a unique positive integer ID.
Contributions of new tests are welcome. When adding a test to the cscript, please add a row to the table below. All datasets should be readable by Stata 10, the minimal supported version.
| Test ID | Area | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basic | Help file example for readreplace version 1 |
| 2 | User mistakes | Specify .csv files that result in an insheet error. |
| 3 | User mistakes | Specify a .csv file whose first column is not the ID variable. |
| 4 | User mistakes | Specify .csv files that do not contain exactly three columns. |
| 5 | Basic | Specify deprecated option display; it should have no effect. |
| 6 | User mistakes | The variable name variable contains a value that is not an unabbreviated variable name. |
| 7 | User mistakes | Specify a replacements file with ID values not in the dataset in memory. |
| 8 | Basic | Specify a replacements file with no observations. |
| 9 | Basic | Specify a string ID variable and a replacements file to insheet that has no observations. |
| 10 | Basic | Specify a replacements file whose variable name variable includes both numeric and string variables. |
| 11 | User mistakes | Specify a replacements file whose variable name variable is numeric. |
| 12 | Basic | Specify a replacements file whose variable name variable includes a string variable but whose new value variable is numeric. |
| 13 | Basic | Specify a replacements file whose variable name variable includes a numeric variable but whose new value variable is string. Further, while all the values for numeric variables are numeric when converted by Mata's strtoreal(), some contain leading and trailing spaces. |
| 14 | User mistakes | Specify a replacements file whose variable name variable includes a numeric variable but whose new value variable specifies a string value for that variable. Blank values ("") are interpreted as string, and are not converted to sysmiss. |
| 15 | User mistakes | Specify option variable() without option value(), and vice versa. |
| 16 | User mistakes | Specify nonexistent variables to options id(), variable(), and value(). |
| 17 | User mistakes | Specify the same variable to options variable() and value(). |
| 18 | User mistakes | Specify the same variable to options id() and variable() and to id() and value(). |
| 19 | Basic | Simple tests of options use, insheet, excel, and import(). |
| 20 | User mistakes | Specify multiple import command options. |
| 21 | User mistakes | When the ID variable has different names in the dataset in memory and the replacements file, specify a varlist to option id() that matches both names. |
| 22 | Basic | Simple tests of ID varlists |
| 23 | User mistakes | Specify a replacements file whose variable name variable contains an ID variable. |
| 24 | User mistakes | Specify a varlist to option id() while using version 1 syntax. |
| 25 | Basic | The dataset in memory has no observations; specify replacements files with and without observations. |
| 26 | Basic | Simple tests of numeric recasting |
| 27 | Basic | Simple tests of string recasting |
| 28 | Basic | Help file examples for readreplace version 2.0.0 |