RE: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string

[tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com>]

you are right. It actually works but the text are all over. I actually found another way of doing although I picked up half od Daniel's code. I pulled away myself from using daniel's code because I couldn't understand bottom half of his code esp the loops. And also, the macronames identical to varnames make it follow even difficult. Anyone willing to break down Daniel's loop will be highly appreciated. The code I used was.. 
gen text1=string(bar)+" "+string(foo)+`" ""'+foobar+`"""'
levelsof text1, local(text) clean 
tsset foo 
tsline bar, ttext(`text')

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> From: william@williambuchanan.net
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:30:35 -0700
>
> The example that Dan sent you works fine on my machine. Did you make sure
> to clean up any carriage returns or characters that are in their place in
> the e-mail?
>
> HTH,
> Billy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of tashi lama
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:26 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
>
> I fail to understand the loop. Also confusing are the macro names that are
> identical to varnames. Is that by necessity or just coincidence? The program
> fails to run by the way. Thanx anyway.
> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:04:59 +0200
> > Subject: Re: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
> > From: klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >
> > Might be a little clumsy, but this works for me
> >
> > clear
> > inp foo bar str7 foobar
> > 23 42 "foo bar"
> > 42 23 "foobar"
> > end
> >
> > tsset foo
> >
> > g foobar2 = ///
> > strofreal(foo) + " " + strofreal(bar) + `" ""' + foobar + `"""'
> >
> > qui levelsof foobar2 ,l(foo)
> >
> > forv j = 1/`: word count `foo'' {
> > loc bar `bar' `=char(96)'`j'`=char(39)'
> > }
> > token `"`foo'"'
> >
> > tsline foo, ttext(`bar')
> >
> > Best
> > Daniel
> >
> > --
> > I am guessing that my two previous posts weren't clear enough for
> > readers to respond/generate idea because I am sure there has to be a
> > solution to this. So, I am attempting to make it as readable as
> > possible. Here is a subset of my dataset.
> > hits date title
> > 23 23jan2011 Earning Report
> > 41 04feb2011 Metamorphosis
> >
> > I would like to use tsline and use ttext option progrmmatically as
> > follows. Typing manually is no issue.
> > tsline hits, ttext(23 23jan2011 "Earning Report" 41 04feb2011
> > "Metamorphosis")
> >
> > I was successful in getting above command but without character(" ")
> > inside ttext. Does someone have any idea how to do it?
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