Re: st: populating a local macro with a stringvariable

[Matthew White <mwhite@poverty-action.org>]

Hi Daniel,

I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like you want the elements of
local `i' to be sorted by the length of the element. I think Mata
might be the easiest way to do this:

levelsof alt, loc(i)
mata:
levels = tokens(st_local("i"))'
st_local("i", invtokens(J(1, rows(levels), "`" + `"""') +
collate(levels, order((strlen(levels), (1::rows(levels))), (1, 2)))' +
J(1, rows(levels), `"""' + "'")))
end

Best,
Matt

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Daniel Pilsgaard Henriksen
<henriksen.dp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Statalist
>
> I'm new to using macros in stata, and I'm having trouble populating
> local macro with a variable containing strings sorted by their length
> instead of their order of apperence. Here's an example of my problem
>
> inp str30 alt
> "a"
> "aaa"
> "b"
> "bb"
> "c"
> "d"
> "e"
> "f"
> "g"
> end
>
>
> gen len = length(alt)
> sort length
> levelsof alt, loc(i)
> di `"`i'"'
>
> I'm sure there're a easy way of doing this, but I've tried for some
> time now and it's not showing up.
>
> Cheers
> Daniel
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> Odense Universitetshospital
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