I am not clear why you have a problem.
program define myprog
syntax varlist
_rmcoll `varlist'
local varlist `r(varlist)'
...
end
seems to work OK.
Nick
[email protected]
P.S. why do you want to -tokenize-?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Matthew L
> Dobra
> Sent: 08 January 2004 18:15
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: using _rmcoll
>
>
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> Consider this simple program:
>
> program define myprog
> syntax varlist
> _rmcoll `varlist'
> local varlist r(varlist)
> tokenize `varlist'
> ...
> do things
> ...
> end
>
> The simple idea is to take the varlist input, remove any collinear
> variables, replace the initial varlist with the
> noncollinear varlist, and
> then tokenize the noncollinear varlist to proceed with the
> things to be
> done. This works fine, so long as I don't have a lot of
> variables in
> varlist. If I do, then r(varlist) gets cut off at 244
> characters. Is
> there a way to do what I want when the varlist is long?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Dobra
>
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