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RE: st: literal single quotes
From
"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To
<[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: literal single quotes
Date
Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:38:50 -0000
Thanks for the plug. -asciiplot- is by Michael Blasnik, Svend Juul and
myself.
Nick
[email protected]
Newson, Roger B
I think the best way is to use the -char()- function. Type
local llquote=char(96)
local lrquote=char(39)
and the macros -llquote- and -lrquote- will contain literal left and
right quotes, respectively.
A useful tool for this kind of problem is Nick Cox's -asciiplot-, which
you can download from SSC, and which gives you the ASCII codes and their
corresponding characters graphically, at a glance.
On 04/03/2010 17:21, Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311) wrote:
> Can someone please tell me how to define a local macro that contains
literal single quotes? For example Suppose I want to do something like
>
> local bull "count if `temp'> 0"
>
> where `temp' is to be interpreted literally, not evaluated.
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