Problem with -if- condition in several commands

[sergiocorreia]

Describe the bug

If the -if- condition has an open or close parenthesis, gtools (gegen/gdistinct/gunique/etc) returns with error too few ')' or ']'

Code Sample
Include a code snippet to reproduce the problem; be sure to run the relevant gtools program(s) with options verbose bench(3).

These lines trigger the error:

sysuse auto
gdistinct make if !strpos(make, ")") // fails
gunique make if !strpos(make, ")") // fails
gegen x = group(foreign) if !strpos(make, "x)") // fails

Running with verbose:

. gdistinct make if make!="(", verbose bench(3)
Parsed by variables; .003 seconds
too few ')' or ']'

Version info

• OS: Win10[e.g. Windows 10]
• Version: 1.7.5 18Apr2020

[mcaceresb]

@sergiocorreia Ah, this seems to be an issue throughout my entire code pipeline. I'll have to switch up how I'm passing if and in around in a few places. Thanks for flagging!