Another approach uses -foreach-, avoiding -tokenize- altogether:
local test 1 2 3 | 4 5 6| 7 8 | 9
local test : subinstr local test "|" `"" ""', all
local test `""`test'""'
local i 1
foreach element of local test {
di `"element `i++' is `element'"'
foreach j of local element {
di _col(10) "and now do something to each piece: " _c
di "ln(`j')=" ln(`j')
}
}
I suppose if you really needed macros named 1, 2, 3,... you could make
them inside the loop.
On 10/4/06, David Elliott <[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you, Scott - I didn't have access to the paper manual and -help
tokenize- omitted that little fact. Your solution would work with my
first example but for more complex strings like my example: 1 2 3 | 4
5 6| 7 8 | 9 where I want the parse to give me the groups separated by
the "|" as tokens - not the individual items within the groups (that
comes later). For now I am going to do the following:
local test 1 2 3 | 4 5 6| 7 8 | 9
tokenize `"`test'"' , parse("|")
local i = 1
while `"`i'"' != "" {
tokenize `"`i'"'
local j = 1
while `"`j'"' != "" {
do something with j
local ++j
}
local ++i
macro shift
}
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