Re: st: SV: RE: RE: locals have short memory

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Tomas,

If you copy/paste those rows into the command window and
hit <enter>, the code will execute and the locals will persist
until you close down Stata.

hth,
Jeph



Tomas Lind wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> The syntax below works fine if I highlite all rows and click on run". Is
> this what is called "a Stata session"? However, immediately after that,
> Stata forgets the content of the local macros. Is it possible to make the
> the local macros functioning until I close down Stata. 
>
> /Tomas
>
>
> local mynames   "Stockholm  Uppsala  Södermanland  Kronoberg"
>
> token `mynames'					
>
> local mycount: word count `mynames'		
>
> forv i=1/`mycount' {
>
>       local lannr = `i' + 21
>       di " "
>       di " "
> 	di in r "``i''"	   
>    }
>
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