RE: st: r(varlist)

["Cohen, Elan" <cohened@upmc.edu>]

I think what Tashi is questioning is the fact that typically a local needs to be surrounded by `' in order to be evaluated.  But the macro -r(varlist)- does not.

- Elan


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Nakoneshny
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 16:20
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: r(varlist)

Tongue in cheek comments aside, you would also need to enclose the called macro as -di `a'- in order to have Stata evaluate the macro. If what you wanted to do was display the contents of the macro (rather than evaluate the macro) you would have to nest it in double quotes -di "`a'"- much as Maarten explained earlier.

Steve

On 2012-11-08, at 2:12 PM, Steve Nakoneshny wrote:

> Keystroke error?
> You defined your local as x, not a.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 2012-11-08, at 2:07 PM, tashi lama wrote:
> 
>> Ok.That explains we need to wrap `r(varlist)' with " " to display the strings. However, 
>> sysuse auto
>> ds 
>> di r(varlist) shouldn't have given     make price mpg rep78 headroom trunk weight length turn displacement gear_ratio foreign
>> for eg. 
>> local x "Make"   // x is a macro
>> di a   
>> a not found
>> 
>> di a doesn't work but di r(varlist) works although both a and r(varlist) are macros. Please explain. 
>> 
>> Thanks, 
>> Tashi 
>> 
>> 
>>>> 
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:33:17 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: st: r(varlist)
>>> From: maartenlbuis@gmail.com
>>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>>> 
>>> You'll get the same again if you type: di "`r(varlist)'".
>>> 
>>> The logic behind what you saw is that
>>> 
>>> di `r(varlist)'
>>> 
>>> is like typing
>>> 
>>> di make price mpg rep78 headroom trunk weight length turn displacement
>>> gear_ratio foreign
>>> 
>>> Which means "display the content of the first observation of each of
>>> these variables".
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Maarten
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:26 PM, tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>>> ds
>>>> return list
>>>> 
>>>> macros:
>>>> r(varlist) : "make price mpg rep78 headroom trunk weight length turn displacement gear_ratio foreign"
>>>> 
>>>> di r(varlist)
>>>> make price mpg rep78 headroom trunk weight length turn displacement gear_ratio foreign
>>>> 
>>>> Since r(varlist) is a macro, do I not say
>>>> di `r(varlist)'
>>>> Surprisingly, when I say di `r(varlisr)' gives me AMC Concord40992232.5112930186401213.57999990
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Am I missing something here??
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Tashi
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