Re: st: getting a list into a macro

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 03:28 PM 9/26/2008, Rich wrote:
> I have a string variable that is 6 characters long -- about 100 observations
>
> I want to get each value into one long macro with spaces between 
> each value -- how can I do that?
>
> Thanks,
If I understand correctly, you want one macro, with all the values.

forvalues j = 1/`=_N' {
 local m "`m' `=myvar[`j']'"
}

This puts an extra space at the beginning. There are ways to avoid it 
if that's a problem -- such as:

forvalues j = 1/`=_N' {
 local m "`m'`sp'`=myvar[`j']'"
 if `j' ==1 {
  local sp " "
 }
}

HTH
--David

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