Re: st: RE: programs with options

[Jean-Benoit Hardouin <jean-benoit.hardouin@club-internet.fr>]

This is perfect,
Thank you
Jean-Benoit Hardouin

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:26:39 -0400, David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu> wrote:

> To Jean-Benoit Hardouin:
>
> You are referring to `1', `2', `3', etc., which are just the non-blank 
> textual segments of the command line (after the command name).  Thus, the 
> final one (`2' in your examples) may include the comma if there is no 
> space after it in the command line.
>
> These are not the same as the elements of the varlist -- until you - 
> tokenize `varlist'-.
>
> So one solution is to put
> tokenize `varlist'
> into your program, before the `forvalues-statement.  But a better way to 
> do this would be...
>
> foreach var of local varlist {
> di "`var'"
> }
>
> (And you won't need `nbitems'.)
>
> I hope this helps.
> -- David
>
> At 05:06 PM 7/11/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>
> > See for example
> >
> > program define testop
> >
> > syntax varlist(min=2 numeric) [,option1 option2]
> > local nbitems : word count `varlist'
> >
> > forvalues i=1/`nbitems' {
> > di "``i''"
> > }
> > end
> >
> > .testop var1 var2 ,option1
> > var1
> > var2
> >
> > .testop var1 var2, option1
> > var1
> > var2,
> >
> > .testop var1 var2,option1
> > var1
> > var2,option1
> > [...]
> David Kantor
> Institute for Policy Studies
> Johns Hopkins University
> dkantor@jhu.edu
> 410-516-5404
>
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