Re: st: operations on macro elements

[Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net>]

In general I can't think of a good reason why you'd want to avoid extended functions. They're:
- very powerful
- well documented
- (generally) easy to use

That said, you don't need them here:
local x a b c
foreach word in `x' {
	local y `y' `word'_1
}
di "`y'"

The above assumes that the macro `y' is not already defined. If it is, you'd first need to clear it with -local y-

Phil

On 16/05/2012, at 10:41 PM, Abhimanyu Arora wrote:

> Dear statalist
> I have a macro say, x containing the string  "a b c"
> I would like to have a macro y such that y contains the string "a_1
> b_1 c_1" ? Is there a simple way using sort of extended functions?
> Many thanks
> Cheers
> Abhimanyu
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