Maarten,
thank you -- you're right, it seems the extended macro functions are
just what I need!
Thanks a lot again, Davide
2009/3/16 Maarten buis <[email protected]>:
>
> --- On Mon, 16/3/09, Davide Cantoni <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Regarding your suggestion, Maarten: I think I understand it,
>> but it is doing exactly the opposite of what I want: it is
>> keeping regressor ``k'', not eliminating it, as I try to do
>> in the code above.
>
> You can do that with the extended macro functions, like in the
> example below:
>
> *--------------- begin example -------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> local regressors "price mpg foreign"
> tokenize `regressors'
> local nk : word count `regressors'
> forvalues k = 1/`nk' {
> local foo : list regressors - `k'
> di "`foo'"
> }
> *-------------- end example ----------------
> (For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
>
> Bottom line: you are now comming at a point where you
> really need to look into all the wonderful things you
> can do with the extended macro functions. You can read
> about those by typing: -help extended_fcn- and in
> particular -help macrolists-
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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