st: Re: Can a global macroname act as a prefix?

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

You need to put braces {} around global names so Stata can tell where they 
end -- local don't have this problem because they include `' to enclose the full 
name.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Samuels" <ssamuels@albany.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:07 AM
Subject: st: Can a global macroname act as a prefix?



> Local variables can act as prefixes and suffixes in variable names:
>
> local a = "local"
> gen `a'_x =  1     //  create local_x
> gen  x_`a'=  1    //  creates x_local
>
> global b= "global"
> gen x_$b=   1    // creates  x_global
>
> gen $b`a'= 1      //  creates globallocal
>
> My question:  Can I create something a variable named "global_x"  using the 
> global variable $b ?
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