st: Re: macro

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

use curly braces:

save ${data}_text

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:10 PM
Subject: st: macro



> Dear statalist,
>
> I am saving my data within loops and address the data with global macros.
> I would like to save the date using the macro and add some text as a 
> suffix.
>
> i.e.:
>
> global data file-name
>
> save $data_text
>
> How can I separate the global with the suffix?
>
> Thanks
> Hans
> Hans J. Baumgartner DIW Berlin
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