Kieran McCaul pointed in the right direction.
You could do this to get the macros into numeric variables:
local x1 = 1
local x2 = 2
foreach v in x1 x2 {
gen `v' = ``v''
}
Notice that I cut a line.
The loop would be different for string variables:
foreach v in x1 x2{
gen `v' = "``v''"
}
The key point is that your macros are on two levels.
The macro v contains in turn x1 and x2.
The macros x1 and x2 contain 1 and 2 respectively.
In fact in your example you could do it otherwise
foreach v in 1 2 {
gen x`v' = `v'
}
But Martin Weiss's question still stands. Why do you want do this? It
would be usually be inefficient as well as unnecessary.
Nick
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Luhang Wang
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.
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