In addition to other suggestions:
tokenize "`varlist'"
local y "`1'"
mac shift
local x "`*'"
Nick
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Thomas Corneli�en
> I want to write an ado file using the -syntax- command as follows:
>
> syntax varlist(min=2) [if] [in]
>
> The first variable in varlist is the dependent variable, the
> others are the
> independent variables. I need to access them seperately in my
> ado-file.
> Therefore I create a local that contains the name of the
> dependent variable,
> i.e. the first word of the varlist-string, and a local that
> contains all the
> rest and can be used as a varlist of only the independent variables.
>
> local depvar=word("`varlist'",1)
>
> local
> indepvar=substr("`varlist'",length("`depvar'")+1,length("`varlist'"));
>
> My problem is that if the varlist is very long, it gets cut
> off at the 81st
> character. It seems that both the -length- and the -substr-
> function can
> only be applied to strings up to 81 characters.
>
> I tried also to precede 'varlist' in the -syntax- command by
> 'varname',
> 'name' or 'anything' to capture the independent variable, but
> that returns
> error messages.
>
> Can anybody suggest a better way to do what I want to do? Is
> there a good
> way of splitting one varlist into two varlists?
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