summary variables help?

[Lynn Rowell]

I am trying to get a table of min max and mean for values for a variable ( syscat) which is divided into 4 categories, which was created from a quantitative variable ( systolic)
I used to be able to type

table syscat, c(min systolic mean systolic max systolic)

Now its says I can't do this
option contents() not allowed since Stata 17; see help table for updated syntax
The help option has been no help.
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Øyvind Snilsberg]

version 16: table syscat, c(min systolic mean systolic max systolic)

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Lynn:
welcome to this forum.
In addition you may want to consider kinda passpartout code:

. use "C:\Program Files\Stata17\ado\base\a\auto.dta"
(1978 automobile data)

. tabstat price, stat(mean min max)

    Variable |      Mean       Min       Max
-------------+------------------------------
       price |  6165.257      3291     15906
--------------------------------------------

.

[Lynn Rowell]

Thanks for your help. Just a small little thing can make such a big difference.