Re: st: RE: quotes in macros

[Keith Dear <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

Thanks Maarten, that works well.
Keith

At 06:13 PM 25/7/06, you wrote:
> Keith:
> You can change the command delimiter to ; by -#delim ;-  and after 
> the global command back to enter again with -#delim cr-. So your 
> command would become:
>
> #delim ;
> glo list `""rather long filename one" "rather long filename two"
>         "ridiculously long filename three which takes a whole line"
>                 (etc etc)
>         "' ;
> #delim cr
>
> HTH,
> Maarten
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of Keith Dear
> Sent: dinsdag 25 juli 2006 7:16
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: quotes in macros
>
> I need to create a global macro containing several filenames, each of
> which contains a space. This is ok for a short list of short names:
>
> glo list `""file one" "file two" "file three""'
>
> but what I really want is
>
> glo list `""rather long filename one" "rather long filename two"        ///
>         "ridiculously long filename three which takes a whole line"     ///
>                 (etc etc)               ///
>         "'
>
> This generates a syntax error, I suppose because quoted strings can't
> be split over lines.
>
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> Note that in a do-file, the following DOES work:
>
> glo list first_filename_with_no_spaces  ///
>         "after the first, quotes strings with spaces are ok"    ///
>         "file three" "file four"
>
> The problem comes only if the first name needs quoting. So a clumsy
> workaround is:
>
> glo list null "file one" ///
>         etc
>
> foreach file of any $list {
>         if "`file'"=="null" continue
> ...
> }
>
> But who wants that?
> kd
>
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> Australian National University
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National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Australian National University
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