Hi, I apologize for such a simple question. I hope to eventually participate in statalist on a much higher level.
I would like to input data that I have in strings manually in a .do file.
That is, say I have a for loop going through a list of a bunch of strings, how can I use those strings to input data?
Say, I have a macro called color.
and, I have an existing dataset with blue and green as observations (there is only one variable, COL).
Why doesn't the following work:
local color = "red"
input
`color'
end
I tried the above code using a global variable as well, to no avail:
global color = "red"
input
${color}
end
Is there a better way to do this? How do I expand my macro before anything else happens?
Thank you!
PS. is there any good forum online that might be better for beginner questions?
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