okay, I need some time with this Austin.
Thank you,
Ashim.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ashim Kapoor --
> You can add all the requisite strings to the data by adding
> characteristics to the data (-help char-), or -notes-, or new
> variables, or use a variety of other tricks, but in order to have
> those objects returned to the local and global macros you want in a
> new Stata session, you would have to write a do file that does
> that--it's much more straightforward just to write a do file defining
> the locals and globals directly. Let's assume for the purposes of
> argument you can't do that because you don't know what the locals and
> globals are--then you can write a program to write the do file for
> you, but it can only save the globals, because any locals will be
> invisible to a program you run. So you would need to switch from
> locals to globals for all your code leading up to the saving
> procedure. Here's a program that saves all extant globals to a
> do-file that recreates them in a new Stata session, assuming they are
> fairly short strings (less than 240 characters or so):
>
> prog logmac
> syntax using [, replace]
> cap log close
> tempfile t
> cap log using `"`t'"', text
> ma li
> cap log close
> tempname f fh
> file open `f' `using', write `replace'
> file open `fh' using `"`t'"', read
> file read `fh' line
> while r(eof)==0 {
> gettoken n line: line
> if !inlist(substr("`n'",1,1),"_","-") {
> loc n=substr("`n'",1,length("`n'")-1)
> file write `f' `"glo `n' `"`=trim(`"`line'"')'"'"' _n
> }
> file read `fh' line
> }
> file close `fh'
> end
>
> I can't see that it is of much use, though...
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