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st: Re: Two-word commands with gettoken


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: Two-word commands with gettoken
Date   Sat, 7 Mar 2009 22:36:07 +0100

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Are you positively sure that your -if- conditions are all on one logical line? That is what I stumbled upon. Still, `subcmd' is -local- to -mycmd- which you can easily see from a -display- in mycmd_ols

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       program define mycmd
               gettoken subcmd 0: 0
if "`subcmd'"=="reg" | "`subcmd'"=="areg" | "`subcmd'"=="xtreg" {
                       mycmd_ols `0'
               }
else if "`subcmd'"=="ivreg" | "`subcmd'"=="xtivreg" | "`subcmd'"=="ivreg2" | "`subcmd'"=="xtivreg2"{
                       mycmd_iv `0'
               }
               else    error 199
       end

       program define mycmd_ols
               di "`subcmd'"
       end

       program define mycmd_iv
       di "`subcmd'"
       end
********

-h gettoken- also talks about the possibility to put its results into a -global- which should be a way out for you...


HTH
Martin
_______________________
----- Original Message ----- From: "Augusto Cadenas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:09 PM
Subject: st: Two-word commands with gettoken


Hello,

I have a question about -gettoken- and programming in Stata. The stata
help file suggests that -gettoken- can be used to create a two-word
command. This is the example that is given:

*** begin example ***

       program define mycmd
               gettoken subcmd 0: 0
               if "`subcmd'"=="list" {
                       mycmd_l `0'
               }
               else if "`subcmd'"=="generate" {
                       mycmd_g `0'
               }
               else    error 199
       end

       program define mycmd_l
               ...
       end

       program define mycmd_g
               ...
       end

*** end example ***

I wonder how I could use the `subcmd' that has been determined by the
first program, -mycmd-, within the sub-programs -mycmd_l- and
-mycmd_g- without referring to it explicitly. To make a concrete
example: In my case I want a program to do two similar, but slightly
different things depending on whether I am doing an OLS regression or
an IV regression. So the setup I have in mind is like:

*** begin example ***

       program define mycmd
               gettoken subcmd 0: 0
               if "`subcmd'"=="reg" | "`subcmd'"=="areg" |
"`subcmd'"=="xtreg" {
                       mycmd_ols `0'
               }
               else if  "`subcmd'"=="ivreg" | "`subcmd'"=="xtivreg" |
"`subcmd'"=="ivreg2" | "`subcmd'"=="xtivreg2" {
                       mycmd_iv `0'
               }
               else    error 199
       end

       program define mycmd_ols
               ...
               `subcmd' `0'
               ...
       end

       program define mycmd_iv
               ...
               `subcmd' `0'
               ...
       end

*** end example ***

But this does not work, I guess because `subcmd' is not recognized
within the next program. How do I get around that? It's two days I'm
trying and I haven't found a solution. Thanks for any suggestions.

AC
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