If you tokenize into two or more macros, you lose any spaces between them. If you put them back together without spaces, as I understood you to recommend earlier, and as is recorded in your posting, you may run them together:
. tokenize "frog toad"
. di "`1'`2'"
frogtoad
In the context of this thread, you may run together a subcommand and some other stuff, thus creating garbage. Thus "regress other stuff" is likely to become
regressother stuff
I use -tokenize- here, but as said the point is wider.
Nick
[email protected]
Sergiy Radyakin
Hi, Nick,
I am not sure what can be good about it. A space that separated subcmd
from the rest remains with the rest anyways and adding another will
double it:
local 0 `"foo "bar""'
. gettoken subcmd 0: 0
. di `"[`0']"'
[ "bar"]
. local 0 `subcmd' `0'
. di `"[`0']"'
[foo "bar"]
Regards, Sergiy
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> An extra space will do no harm and might do good.
>
> local 0 `subcmd' `0'
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Sergiy Radyakin
>
> after -gettoken- the local `0' does not contain `subcmd' anymore, so
>
> 1) just put it back there:
>
> gettoken subcmd 0: 0
> local 0 `"`subcmd'`0'"' // <<<---- new line
> if ....
>
>
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