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Interpretation is usually facilitated in these cases with the help of -set
trace on-. Make sure you have - set traceexpand on - so you can see what
Stata makes of your -macro-s. Even with Kieran`s improvement of your code,
you would still end up with an empty dataset unless you -set obs- to
whatever seems appropriate for your particular problem.
BTW, in what kind of a situation would one need such a construct?
HTH
Martin
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Betreff: st: converting macros into variables
Hi All,
Does anyone know an easy way of converting macros into variables?
I'm trying something like the following.
local x1=1
local x2=2
local vl "x1 x2"
foreach v of loc vl {
gen "`v'"=`"`v'"'
}
I end up with error message
"x1 invalid name
r(198);
How to interprete this?
I guess there is better method to achieve the goal. Any hint will be
appreciated.
Thanks.
Luhang
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