RE: st: RE: Macro questions. (Again).

[adiallo5@worldbank.org]

Thanks to Nick, Ulrich and David
for these helpful comments.
Best regards.
Amadou.



                                                                                                                                           
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In addition to the facilities recommended by
Ulrich and David, there is a very dusty
set of utilities called -listutil- on SSC.
These all predate -foreach-, -forval- and -macrolists-,
which remove most of the need for them, but
some of the commands, and/or some of the code,
might be useful.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

> adiallo5@worldbank.org wrote:
> > Nick,
> > When I talk about working inside macros, I am thinking of something
> > like this:
> > I know that one can increment a macro by doing: local
> myvars "`myvars'
> > var1" But why can't we REMOVE var1 from the macro myvars?
> > Something like (it's just an example, but maybe you have
> another syntax):
> >
> > local myvars "`myvars' , -var1"
> >
> > (where -var1 is intented to tell Stata to remove var1 from myvars).
> >
> > This could sound odd but sometimes, macros contain a lot of
> variables and
> > it is painfull to create other macros that are just part of
> them (what I
> > call "submacors").

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