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Re: st: macro compound double quotes
From
Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: macro compound double quotes
Date
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:12:18 +0200
As a follow up I managed to find the right answer (by hit and trial)
local temp1:list clean inclcities
local countcity:word count `temp1'
di `countcity'
So it seems that unless the elements of a macro are minimally adorned,
stata doesn't parse the spaces between the tokens (even if they are
distinguished by compound double quotes)
Cheers
Abhimanyu
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalist
> I have been trying to understand this phenomenon
>
> http://screencast.com/t/m6fGA8g9lxfX
>
> From what I have read in the manuals, the compound double quotes help
> stata distinguish the tokens better when the macros themselves contain
> quotes. So isn't the first syntax more appropriate?
> But even then, the number returned when the second syntax is used
> doesn't seem to be correct.
>
> Many thanks and best regards
> Abhimanyu
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