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

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

Your first example will work if the contents of the local are not 
enclosed in quotes:

. local a foo ///
>         bar

. di "[`a']"
[foo         bar]


or you can do:

. local a "foo " ///
	"bar"

if for some reason you need to enclose the local in quotation marks.

- Nick Winter

On 8/12/2010 5:59 AM, Maarten buis wrote:
> --- 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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