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


From   philippe van kerm <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: assign several lines of syntax to local?
Date   Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:35:09 +0200

A simple alternative to trying feeding commands in a local is to define a -program- in the do file, e.g.

program define chunk
  display "whatever"
  summarize
  count
  codebook
end

use file1
...
chunk
...
use file2
...
chunk
...
etc.


Philippe



> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] De la part de raoul reulen
> Envoyé : Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:33 AM
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : st: assign several lines of syntax to local?
>
> 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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