Re: st: RE: Macro question

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Assuming you can be sure that the varlist is tokenized with single spaces, 
with no leading or trailing spaces (which should be true if it comes 
through -syntax-, how about:

 . local varlist : subinstr local varlist `" "' `"", ""' , all
 . local varlist `""`varlist'""'

The first step changes each space into ", "
the second step adds the leading and trailing quotation marks.

--Nick WInter


At 03:39 PM 3/15/2005 +0000, you wrote:

> > Can anyone help with this macro question:
> >
> > In a program syntax statement
> >
> > syntax, vlist(varlist)
> >
> > I create a local macro vlist which end up containg:
> >
> > di"`vlist'"
> >
> > plaghaq_disability plaghaq2 plagpas
> >
> > I want to use the contents of that macro in an inlist()
> > function like this:
> >
> > if inlist(parm,"plaghaq_disability", "plaghaq2", "plagpas")
> >
> > So I need to transform
> >
> > this list:
> > plaghaq_disability plaghaq2 plagpas
> >
> > into this list:
> >
> > "plaghaq_disability", "plaghaq2", "plagpas" in a macro. I am having
> > problems adding the quotation marks.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to do this
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