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

[Steven Samuels <ssamuels@albany.edu>]

Thank you, Michael.  ${b}_x does work.  I'd been confused by the  
examples on p. 182 of the programming manual (V9), because they put  
(macro) suffixes inside the brackets.

Steve

On May 8, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Michael Blasnik wrote:


> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Samuels"  
> <ssamuels@albany.edu>
>
> > global b= "global"
> > My question:  Can I create a variable named "global_x"  using the  
> > global variable $b ?
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