Thanks, Maarten! It really helps.
Jian
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Maarten buis wrote:
> Dear Jian Zhang:
> The /* and */ mean "ignore whatever is between", including returns. What happens in your case is
> that the start comment sign /* is now part of a string, so it is not evaluated as such. One way to
> solve this is to set the delimiter to ; before defining the local and set it back again to hard
> return afterwards. You can do that like this:
>
> #delim ;
> local i "prest_ p309_ p310_ p311_ p312_ p313_ p313c_
> p314_ p3141_ p3142_ p315_ p316_ p317_
> p318_ p3191_" ;
> #delim cr
>
> HTH,
> Maarten
>
> --- Jian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Due to the lengh width limit of the do file editor, i have to continued
> > the command in the next line by using mark /*. But it seems that when I used this
> > mark to define a local macro, it doesn't work. For example,
> >
> > the command is as follows.
> >
> > local i "prest_ p309_ p310_ p311_ p312_ p313_ p313c_ /*
> > */ p314_ p3141_ p3142_ p315_ p316_ p317_ p318_ p3191_"
> >
> > stata returns with an error message saying invalid syntax.
>
>
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