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

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

Strange, I thought this would work:

***************
  sysuse auto
  local test count ; list in 1 ;
  #delimit ;
  `test'
***************

but it doesn't produce so much as an error message. Why not?



On 8/12/2010 5:33 AM, raoul reulen wrote:
> Hello All
>
> 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? I don't want to use a
> loop for this. The "include" command does something similar, but I
> would have to save the relevant syntax in a separate file which I
> don't want. So, essentially I would like to assign several lines of
> syntax to a local, is this possible? Are there alternatives? Thanks.
>
> BW
>
> Raoul
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