--- [email protected] wrote:
> 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?
Maybe the following is what you want? See -help extended_fcn- and
-help tokenize- for more details.
*----------- begin example ---------------
clear
local colors "red blue yellow"
local n : word count `colors'
set obs `n'
gen colors = ""
tokenize `colors'
forvalues i = 1/`n' {
replace colors = "``i''" in `i'
}
*----------- end example -----------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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