Re: st: How to separate multiple word assignments to a macro

[Thomas Jacobs <thomasjacobs@gmail.com>]

Dear Michael,

Thanks very much, that was EXACTLY what I was trying to do.  Most helpful!

Tom

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Michael Norman Mitchell
<Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Tom
>
>  I wonder if this would do the trick for you...
>
> local TreasRatesDisplay `""5 Yr Treas Rate" "10 Yr Treas Rate" "20 Yr Treas
> Rate""'
>
> You could extract the three pieces like this...
>
> local a : word 1 of `TreasRatesDisplay'
> local b : word 2 of `TreasRatesDisplay'
> local c : word 3 of `TreasRatesDisplay'
>
> And then you can display the three pieces like this
>
> . di "The first word is `a'"
> The first word is 5 Yr Treas Rate
>
> . di "The second word is `b'"
> The second word is 10 Yr Treas Rate
>
> . di "The third word is `c'"
> The third word is 20 Yr Treas Rate
>
>  The key is using the -compound double quotes- which start with `" and end
> with "' . These are like super duper quotes that can hold a quoted string,
> and Stata understand that each quoted pair is a different -word-.
>
>  You can even extact the number of words using the "word count" function...
>
> . local wc : word count `TreasRatesDisplay'
> . di `wc'
> 3
>
>  I hope this is helpful.
>
> Michael N. Mitchell
> See the Stata tidbit of the week at...
> http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com
>
> On 2010-04-09 4.45 PM, Thomas Jacobs wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to create a macro of readable variable names for later
>> output in multiple tables.  Thus, the number of variable names will
>> change.  For example assume I have a case with three values such as
>>
>> 5 Yr Treas Rate, 10 Yr Treas Rate, 20 Yr Treas Rate
>>
>> which I wish to assign to the macro TreasRatesDisplay
>>
>> Is there any way to do this and end up with just 3 values in the macro
>> where each value may have embedded spaces?  Thanks.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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