Jian,
You need global.
Remember, if you run a dofile with a local,
and then rerun only a portion of your dofile,
stata will "forget" the local (it assumes its
a new dofile session).
HTHs.
Amadou.
Jian Zhang wrote:
Hello,
I have a question about the local macro. I could not figure out why
and
how to get around it. Hope that you can help me out.
Here is the question. In my do file, I have two commands as follows:
local IC="IC412 IC413"
reg y `IC'
The question is that when I run the two commands together
it works. But I found that if I then re-run the second command without
running the first command, I thought it should give the same results
since i have already defined the local macro, so I do not need to
redefine it. It turns out that this time stata treated `IC' as empty.
That means if I want to run the second command, i always need to run
the
two commands together. Am I correct? Any explanations? Is there
anyway
to get around this?
Thanks!
Best,
Jian Zhang
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
