Fred Wolfe said to see extended functions... He's right, but you want _macro_
extended functions, so start with macro first.
Here's the diagram for what you want:
{local | global} macname : label { valuelabelname | (varname) } {
maxlength | # [#] } [, strict ]
Thus"
global myvaluelabel : label mylabel 1
And if, say, mylabel was the value label for variable myvar, you could
directly do:
global myvaluelabel : label (myvar) 1
And Stata will figure out which value label you want.
Tom
> On Behalf Of Lars E. Kroll
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 7:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Function to assign a value label to a global marco
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to do the following:
>
> . label define mylabel 1 "Hello" 2 "Good Bye"
> . global myvaluelabel UNKNOWNFUNCTION(mylabel,1)
> . di "{$myvaluelabel} XY!"
> HELLO XY!
>
> But I don't know the UNKNOWNFUNCTION and I didn't find an information
> about. But I know that it is possible..
>
> (In fact I want to assign the value label to a legend in an
> overlaid tw
> graph.. )
>
> I hope someone can help me..
>
> Lars
>
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