st: Mata question

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

I'm new to Mata, and just testing the waters. 

As I read through the first of the Mata programming books, it is not 
transparent to me how you take a macro /"varlist"/ and import the 
variables as a matrix in Mata.  Perhaps it is different in 
non-interactive mode, but trying to use st_view and st_data 
interactively seems to require that I have all sorts of punctuation 
around each of the variable names, punctuation that cannot be preserved 
and passed on in macroland.  Is there a quick way of taking the usual 
varlist macro and referring to it with st_data?

Thanks.

Paul



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