Re: st: ` ' syntax

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

I don't think that local macros are actually relevant.

How about something like this:

 . replace match = match + ", 5" if ...

In the context of a string variable, the "+" operator means 
concatenation, not addition.

Nick Winter

At 02:54 PM 9/29/2005, you wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a similar syntax to `x' for string variables?
>
> I have a string variable which might have contents like:
> 1, 2, 3, 4
>
> I want to replace this string, under certain conditions, with something
> like:
> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
>
> i.e. I want to keep the string and append ", 5", for example, to the end.
>
> What I have written is this, but I realized the `myvar' notation only makes
> sense when myvar is numeric.
>
> replace match="`match', `y'" if ... Where y is numeric.
>
> Again, ideas?  Thanks so much.
> Terra
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