Michael,
that's not easy to do. To my knowledge no command exists to list the
globals and locals
ready for processing; -macro list- does not leave anything in r().
However, you could try a work-around with tempvars:
forvalues i = 1(1)20 {
tempvar m`i'
// Assign your values
...
}
This may work only in a limited number of cases.
One may conceive of other work-arounds. The least convenient one may be
to -macro list-
the macros, copy the output from the results window, paste it into
some text file and then read in this text file, separating macro names
from their values.
Storing itself is easy:
You write the macros to a text file, which you later may read in.
To write, something like this should work (excerpted from the code of my
-rfl-,
where I have to store some values between Stata sessions):
tempname rfllog
file open `rfllog' using `"`:sysdir PERSONAL'rfl.log"', write
text replace
file write `rfllog' "`strucversion'" _n
file write `rfllog' "`hidemenu'" _n
...
file close `rfllog'
To read, try something along these lines:
tempname rfllog
file open `rfllog' using `"`:sysdir PERSONAL'rfl.log"', read
text
...
file read `rfllog' line
local strucversion `line'
file read `rfllog' line
local hidemenu `line'
...
file close `rfllog'
Instead of known macro names, take `m`i'' and put them in a forvalues
loop, or
do further processing with the lines to separate names from values.
The tempvar solution implies that you know what m`i' denotes after
you've read in the file...
Don't know whether this really suits your problem, but I hope it helps.
Dankwart Plattner
Michael Ganz wrote:
Hello,
I've looked high and low but I can't find anything on this:
Is there a way to save the contents of all of the global and local
macros
currently in memory to a file so that they can be restored later after
restarting Stata?
Thanks,
Michael
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