Re: st: modifying a macro containing variable names (problem solved)

[Jeremy Reynolds <jeremyr@uga.edu>]

Your code worked flawlessly.  Many thanks, Maarten.

Jeremy

Maarten buis wrote:
> I started by recreating your error messages and thus created the global
> $ivlist, but than in my solution changed it into a local. I did not
> change that everywhere,  but because the global still hang around, I
> did not get an error message. The correct code should be: 
> *----------------- begin example ------------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> reg mpg displacement turn gear_ratio
> local ivlist "displacement turn gear_ratio"
> foreach var of varlist `ivlist' {
> 	local list1 : list ivlist - var
> 	di "`list1'"
> 	local numvars : word count (`list1')
> 	adjust `list1', xb by(foreign)
> 	sum `list1'
> }
> *-------------- end example -----------------------
>
> Sorry,
> Maarten
>
>
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