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Re: st: Using regexr() in local macros without using an = sign
From
Abe N <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Using regexr() in local macros without using an = sign
Date
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:56:04 -0800 (PST)
Actually, I had to modify that last part in the loop to the following:
local elrest
foreach v of local rest {
if strmatch("`v'", "``i''")==0 local elrest `elrest' `v'
}
and it seems to be working thus far. Going to let this run overnight to
test and see if it works out tomorrow. THanks again!
--- On Thu, 11/29/12, Abe N <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Abe N <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Using regexr() in local macros without using an = sign
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 12:35 AM
> Thanks for the help Nick, the code
> you showed me is so much simpler than what I was
> trying. It seems to work, although I tweaked it a
> little bit, because I think it's more important that the
> variable have "b." in there somewhere. Here's the code
> I ended up using in case anyone else runs into this:
>
> foreach v of local varlist {
> if strmatch("`v'","*b.*") == 1 local
> onlybases `onlybases' `v'
> else local nobases `nobases' `v'
> }
>
> I've now run into a slightly different issue that maybe you
> can help me with. There is somewhere else in my
> program that I've evaluated a macro and again I run into the
> character limit. If you were to take the variables
> contained in onlybases from above, I'm running a loop where
> first for each variable I run a logistic by itself, then I
> run a logistic with all the variables in `onlybases' except
> without the variable.
>
> So first for each variable in `onlybases', I perform the
> following commands (``i'' is the variable here, used after
> tokenizing and the loop is done using a while command)
> while "``i''"~="" {
> logistic `dv' ``i'' if `touse'
> local elrest = regexr("`rest'", "``i''",
> "")
> logistic `dv' `elrest' `onlybases' if
> `touse'
> }
>
> Is there a way I could accomplish this without evaluating
> again with an =? Now that I think about it, maybe I
> should try repeating something like the above within this
> loop? Maybe:
> foreach v of local rest {
> if strmatch("`rest'", ``i'')==0 local elrest `elrest'
> `v'
> }
> I think that would but all the variables except ``i'' in a
> local, right?
>
> Thanks again for the help!
> Abe Noorbakhsh
> [email protected]
>
> --- On Wed, 11/28/12, Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: st: Using regexr() in local macros without
> using an = sign
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 1:07 AM
> > Abe N.: You are asked to use your
> > _full real name_.
> >
> > If I understand your problem, a more basic approach is
> > something like
> >
> > fvexpand `varlist'
> > local varlist "`r(varlist)'"
> > foreach v of local varlist {
> >
> > if strpos("`v'", 1) == "0" local sheep
> > `sheep' `v'
> >
> > else local goats `goats' `v'
> > }
> >
> > You can use regular expressions if you like, but the
> key
> > issue appears
> > to be whether "0" is the first character.
> >
> > -tokenize- is not going to help much, if at all. You
> want to
> > look at
> > each name in a list and whether the names are in
> individual
> > macros or
> > just one long macro is not the main question.
> >
> > -regexr()- is a function, not a command.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Abe N <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This is my first time posting something, so I hope
> this
> > works and sorry in advance if I messed something up.
> > I've been trying to write a program that at the basics
> of it
> > runs a series of logistic regressions and while I got
> it to
> > work for the most part, I've been trying to do
> something
> > specifically with factor variables (I'm using version
> 11.2
> > STATA/SE)
> > >
> > > What I'm trying to do currently I think is pretty
> > basic. I'm starting with a variable list that has
> > factor variables (ex. my current varlist will
> basically
> > contain: dependent_variable i.age_cat i.year female),
> > expanding it, and then trying to create two new macros,
> one
> > that contains the base variables (ex. 0b.age_cat
> 1998b.year)
> > and another that contains the rest (ex. died 1.age_cat
> > 2.age_cat 1999.year 2000.year 2001.year female).
> > >
> > > The way I went about this at first worked well for
> a
> > couple variables, but I was running into the issue of
> > character limits when you evaluate a macro with an =
> > sign. Here's the code I was using:
> > > fvexpand `varlist'
> > > local varlist = "`r(varlist)'"
> > > local nobases = "`varlist'"
> > > local loopvar =
> > regexm("`nobases'", "[a-zA-Z0-9]+[b][\.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+[
> ]*")
> > > local onlybases
> > > while "`loopvar'"=="1" {
> > > local onlybases =
> > "`onlybases' "+regexs(0)
> > > local nobases =
> > regexr("`nobases'", "[a-zA-Z0-9]+[b][\.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+[
> ]*",
> > "")
> > > local loopvar =
> > regexm("`nobases'", "[a-zA-Z0-9]+[b][\.][a-zA-Z0-9_]+[
> ]*")
> > > }
> > > local varlist "`nobases'"
> > > Then when I run logistics later, I would
> basically
> > use:
> > > logistic `nobases' `onlybases'
> > >
> > > The problem with this method is the macro
> `nobases'
> > will cut off after a certain # of characters. So I
> > tried doing things without = signs, but I've been
> running
> > into a lot of problems because I'm using the regexr()
> > command and it doesn't seem to like me using that
> without an
> > = sign.
> > >
> > > Now that I've written this up, I'm wondering if
> this
> > would have been a lot easier using tokenize, but I
> think I
> > avoided it because I use it later for a very key aspect
> of
> > the program and I think I was worried it might mess
> with
> > some of my later loops. Anyway, any help would be
> much
> > appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Abe N.
> > > [email protected]
> >
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