Nick, thank you for your patient help.
Best regards,
Rose.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: AW: st: How to use the marco names?
Date: 2009-8-7 02:21:29
You are correct in pointing out that in your example Stata strips
isolated opening " but not such closing ", which also appears directly in
. display "c
However, I've not been bit by this while I've been using Stata. It's a
small feature.
Nick
[email protected] wrote:
> Nick and Martin, thank you very much!
>
> Just as Nick pointed, I recognized my confusion was the use of -di-. However, I do need learn the use of -macro- too.
>
> A doubt appears when learning the use of -di-. What is the difference between "" and `""'?
> In -di- help,I guess the only difference is the latter allows embedded quotes, am I right?
>
> Additionally, there is a small question below.
> . foreach i in a" "b" "c {
> 2. di `"`i'"'
> 3. }
> a"
> b
> c
> Where is the quote before c. Namely, I think the result should be
>
> a"
> b
> "c
>
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