Re: st: getting a list into a macro

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

Thanks - no embedded spaces, no missing values

Rich

Nick Cox wrote:
> forval i = 1/`=_N' {
>     local richslongmacro `richslongmacro' `=myvar[`i']'
> }
>
> I assume no embedded spaces within values: signal if otherwise.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Richard Goldstein 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?
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