Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
st: Re: question about ds command
From
"Dr. Bill Westman" <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: Re: question about ds command
Date
Wed, 12 May 2010 13:43:58 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks Nick and Austin. Both solutions seem to work very identically. I stuck with the unab command.
I didn't realize it was the = sign causing the problem, so if this was too much of a rehashing forgive me.
Bill
--- On Wed, 5/12/10, Dr. Bill Westman <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Dr. Bill Westman <[email protected]>
> Subject: question about ds command
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 2:38 PM
> I have a question on the function of
> ds related to the following:
>
> forvalues x = 1/50 {
> g q_`x'_test = 1
> }
> ds *_test
> ** displays the list of q_1_test - q_50_test perfectly **
> local a = r(varlist)
> disp "`a'"
> ** DOES NOT Contain all variables. list is truncated
> after q_25_test q_ **
>
> I'd like to accomplish putting a long list of variables
> with using "*_" into a local macro (e.g., everything with
> that has the suffix _test).
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/