Re: st: Number of elements in Global

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

The most modern approach is

local num : list sizeof global(A)

(See help macrolists in Stata)

Another way is

local num : word count $A

--Nick Winter

At 09:24 AM 11/9/2005, you wrote:
> Dear all!
> How can I get the number of element in global.
> Like:
> global A "var1 var2 var3....varN"
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