Jean-Benoit Hardouin
> See for example
>
>
> .testop var1 var2 ,option1
> var1
> var2
>
> .testop var1 var2, option1
> var1
> var2,
>
> .testop var1 var2,option1
> var1
> var2,option1
>
> How can I use the name of the second variable in my program
> without the
> comma if this one is not separated by a blank of the last variable ?
As hypothesised, this isn't anything to do with -syntax-.
What you type after the command name is automatically
parsed by Stata into "words", parsing on spaces, so that
in your case the first word after the command name in the last
example is
var1
and this is put into local macro 1, and the second
word is
var2,
and this is put into local macro 2.
The fix you need is
tokenize `varlist'
to overwrite the default assignment to locals
1, 2, etc.
Your program would then be
program define testop
version 7
syntax varlist(min=2 numeric) [, option1 option2]
tokenize `varlist'
local nbitems : word count `varlist'
forvalues i = 1/`nbitems' {
di "``i''"
}
end
but note that there is a better way,
even in Stata 7,
program define testop
version 7
syntax varlist(min=2 numeric) [, option1 option2]
foreach v of local varlist {
di "`v'"
}
end
However, no doubt you constructed the program just
to demonstrate the problem.
The main point: use -tokenize `varlist'- to overwrite
the default assignment to local macros 1 up.
Nick
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