Re: st: RE: accessing a variable's value WRT its attached value label

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

"Phil Schumm" <pschumm@uchicago.edu> wrote:
<snip>
> I guess what I was really trying to avoid was the inline expansion of  
> an extended macro function; in my experience, many users find this a  
> much bigger jump than just learning how to use a simple macro (e.g.,  
> within a -foreach- loop).  This is especially true with the second  
> colon and/or if you throw in additional levels of nesting, e.g.
>
> foreach var of varlist var1 var2 ... {
>     count if `var' == "yes":`:val l `var''
> }
Why not just expand the macro on a separate line? 
foreach var of varlist var1 var2 ... {
      local valuelabel: value label `var'
      count if `var' == "yes":`valuelabel'
}

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net
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