At 14.54 18/06/04 +0100, you wrote:
That's a pretty lousy solution. Here's a better one:
program cnumlist, rclass
version 8.2
numlist `0'
local result "`r(numlist)'"
local result : subinstr local result " " ",", all
return local numlist "`result'"
end
i.e. this should take the same input as -numlist-.
Very little testing!
I think this could be great.
Many thanks prof Cox.
Enzo
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> While I agree on this, see -cseplist- in -listutil- on SSC,
> as one of several possible solutions.
>
> Enzo Coviello
>
> > I would find useful if -numlist could return, as option, a
> > comma separated
> > numeric list.
> > There is some Stata function, i.e. -recode -inlist, that
> > needs as input a
> > comma separated list.
> > So we could feed them directly with the r(numlist) output.
> >
> > I wonder if other Users would find useful this addition.
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