Tomas Lind <[email protected]> asked,
> Is it possible to store names in a matrix for example "east",
> "west", "north", "south" and then display the one that I want, for
> example the 3:rd element "north"?
and Martin Weiss <[email protected]> replied,
> Could well be as easy as
>
> *************
> local mynames "nameone nametwo namethree namefour namefive"
>
> token `mynames'
>
> local mycount: word count `mynames'
>
> forv i=1/`mycount'{
> //-lincom- statement goes here
> di in r "``i''"
> }
> *************
and that seemed to be a hit because Tomas then replied, "Perfect."
Given that, here's another, related solution. Start by defining
separate macros for each member of the list:
. local name1 "north"
. local name2 "south"
. local name3 "east"
. local name4 "west"
Now say we want to display the `i'th name. We can type:
. display "`name`i''
For instance, if `i' contained 3,
. local i = 3
. display "`name`i''"
east
That works because `name`i'' first expands to `name3' (Stata goes inside
and substitutes the contents of i for `i'), and then `name3' expands to
east in the usual way.
-- Bill
[email protected]
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