st: Passing varlist to a Program

[Aaron Thomas <aaron_kenneth@hotmail.com>]

I'm having two problems, and hoping someone can help me with this.

I have a program that takes a varlist in stata 10. 
(So I type something like:
someprog var1-var99
Then it does something with the data.)

I have another program that takes a varlist, and I want to pass that 
varlist to the first program so I can then work with the data it gives back.
(so, something like
myprog var1-var99
Now, myprog needs to pass that varlist to someprog )

I can't seem to do this in Stata.  I can pass var1-var99 to one program, 
but writing a program in a way that it can take any varlist and pass it 
to the next one is invisible to me, I've been crawling the web for four 
hours now looking for a way to do this.  Someone please help me, or tell 
me where to get the right help.  Which is my second problem.  Where do I 
get some information about programming in Stata that makes sense?  I 
program in C/C++, python, lisp, basic, c#, pascal, java, and several 
scripting languages, and the flat linear interpreted style of Stata is 
unfamiliar ground for me, I can't find anything readable on it.  Thanks.


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