Hi,
Thanks all for your suggestions..
And thanks very much Joseph for that clarification. But, Does that depend
anyway on whether you use _request(foo) or _request(_ foo)
See below,
1. with _request(foo)
. display in smcl as input "Enter value for foo: " _request(foo)
Enter value for foo: . n
. display in smcl as text "local " as result "`foo'"
local
. display in smcl as text "global " as result "$foo"
global n
.
end of do-file
2. with _request(_foo)
. do "C:\DOCUME~1\corpfin\LOCALS~1\Temp\STD00000000.tmp"
. display in smcl as input "Enter value for foo: " _request(_foo)
Enter value for foo: . m
. display in smcl as text "local " as result "`foo'"
local m
. display in smcl as text "global " as result "$foo"
global n
thanks very much
rajesh
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 26 June 2008 17:05
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: user input as scalar value
A major correction! Thanks, Nick
Joseph Coveney
Sent: 26 June 2008 15:49
To: Statalist
Subject: Re: st: RE: user input as scalar value
Nick Cox wrote:
Yes, you can do this.
A canonical exchange within the do file is
di "Enter value for foo: " _request(foo)
after which local foo contains the value typed.
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Just a technical clarification: it's returned in a global macro and not
a
local macro. (I *have* happened to have used it on rare occasion, and
have
got stung nearly each time for forgetting this.)
Joseph Coveney
. display in smcl as input "Enter value for foo: " _request(foo)
Enter value for foo: . Bar
. display in smcl as text "local " as result "`foo'"
local
. display in smcl as text "global " as result "$foo"
global Bar
. exit
end of do-file
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