Re: st: RE: Macro question

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Thanks Nick and Nick.

I modified the code slightly for my application, and I get the same error 
with the two suggested methods. Suggestion?

local vlist: list clean vlist
local olist : subinstr local vlist `" "' `"", ""' , all
local olist `""`olist'""'
di "`olist'"


 callparmby "reg totcost03 age sex `var'",fwrelabel pformat(%9.3f) 
eformat(%9.1f) vlist(plaghaq_ plaghaq2 plagpas)
plaghaq_disability", "plaghaq2", "plagpas"" invalid name
r(198);


Fred


At 09:47 AM 3/15/2005, you wrote:

> 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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Fred Wolfe
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