st: Re: Macro escape inside a macro

[Aleksander Rutkowski <alek.rutkowski@gmail.com>]

Eric, Nic, thank you for your replies. It appears that the beginning
of my original message did not reach statalist. I am resending it --
see below. BTW, I have read
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/backslash.html but it shows
only simple actions with -display- command, which work fine, but my
problem is more complicated. I want to delay substitution of a macro
which is nested in another macro -- see below. Why backslash works
when used with -display- but not with -local-? (In my example below I
want to expand x but not d). I tried to use -macval()- but I did not
succeed. The description of -macval()- in the [P] manual is very brief
and there is no example with a full syntax. Maybe somebody could give
an example how -macval()- should be used?

-- original message below --

Why:
  di "\`d'"
displays:
  `d'
but:
  local x "\`d'"
  di "`x'"
displays empty string?

How can I escape macro (i.e. prevent macro substitution) inside
another macro (i.e. when defining another macro)?

Aleksander Rutkowski
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