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Re: st: question on local macros ina graph title
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: question on local macros ina graph title
Date
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:32:28 +0100
My question is not whether you can get this to happen by changing the
example. Either Walt's example was not as he reported, or his initial
failure to get it to work remains a mystery. I don't see other
possibilities.
Nick
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Eric Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>> What embedded quotes are you referring to?
>> When you define
>> local title "Database Analysis"
>> the double quote characters " " do not become part of the macro. They
>> are just treated as delimiters for the string. Following precisely the
>> line above with
>> mac li
>> will show that. So, my comment remains as it was. Glad you solved your
>> problem, but it is not clear why what you did failed to work in the
>> first place.
>>
>> Nick
>
> I *think* one of my earlier responses to this thread (link below) shows why this is the case (but my expl. was buried down near the bottom of this posting, so Nick might have missed it -- or it still may not answer what he's asking about):
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-04/msg00481.html
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