Re: st: assign several lines of syntax to local?

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Thu, 12/8/10, raoul reulen wrote:
> I have a large do-file in which a few lines of syntax come
> back several times. It is possible to assign a local to the
> lines of syntax so that I don't have to repeat it all the 
> time? <snip> So, essentially I would like to assign several
> lines of syntax to a local, is this possible? 

I am guessing that the problem is that you don't want to list
all the options on one line, because then that line would get
too long to be (easily) readable, and that a statement like

local a "foo  ///
         bar"

doesn't work, as Stata considers the -///- as part of the string
and not as an indication that it needs to move to the next line. 

In that case you can temporarily change the delmiter to -;-, 
using the -#delimit- command, like in the example below:

*------------ begin example ------------
sysuse auto

#delimit ;
local opts vce(robust)
           beta ;
#delimit cr
		  
reg price mpg, `opts'
*------------ end example --------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see: 
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany

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