Sergiy's work-around is clever, but my answer to this is more elementary: as a matter of style, don't define things before you have all the information you need. I'd be interested to know if Daniel has a problem in which that approach is not applicable.
Nick
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Sergiy Radyakin
The "\" prevents macro from being evaluated, and thus includes the
reference, not the value into the local being defined. E.g.:
. local test "A \`B' C"
. di `"`test'"'
A C
// ... later in the program ....
. local B "Zypsel"
. di `"`test'"'
A Zypsel C
On 6/23/08, H�chle, Daniel (MI Switzerland) <[email protected]> wrote:
> For a program I would like to create several local macros containing strings of type "A `B' C". Later in my program the string "A `B' C" will be evaluated. Unfortunately, however, I don't manage to include single quotes in local macros. I fully understand that
>
> . local Test "A `B' C"
> . disp "'Test'"
> A C
>
> can't be the solution since local macro B is still empty.
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