Re: st: from variable to macro

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 12:36 17/11/02 -0800, Shige Song wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'd like to know how to generate a macro out of a numerical variable. For 
> example, I have a variable A that includes 200 values, I want to generate 
> a macro X that contains all the values that variable A has so that  I can 
> do something like:
>
> foreach x of local X {
>
> qreg ... , q(x)
>
> }
You should probably use Nick Cox's -vallist- command (type -ssc describe 
vallist- to find out more). Your program might be as follows:

vallist A
local vals "`r(list)'"
foreach X of numlist `vals' {
  qreg ... , q(x)
}

I hope this helps.

Roger


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