RE: st: Why won't my -local- work?

["kantor.d@att.net" <kantor.d@att.net>]

I'm mytified, too.
Are you spelling the macroname consistently?

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---Original Message---
From: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Sent: 2/22/2013 6:44 pm
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Why won't my -local- work?

Thanks for the idea, David. But it returned the same result. With quotes, and
>disp "`mymacro'"
I still return nothing but a blank line. I am mystified why Stata
isn't storing my varlist, which I don't think should require (double)
quotes as a string would.
Do I have to, for instance, "turn macro on" the way I can "set more off"?


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:37 PM, kantor.d@att.net <kantor.d@att.net> wrote:
> Put quotes around the macro value.
> local mymacro "var1 var2 var3"
>
> Also check the value by...
> disp "`mymacro'"
>
> hth
> david
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> ---Original Message---
> From: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Sent: 2/22/2013 6:31 pm
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Why won't my -local- work?
>
> I want to make some tables using -contract- and -collapse- for about
> thirty variables. I figured a local macro to identify that varlist
> would be the best way to do it. I followed examples I've seen
> elsewhere - such as http://!
 www.ssc.wisc.edu/sscc/pubs/stata_prog1.htm
> - and on Statalist but keep failing. Here is an example of my syntax:
>
>>local mymacro var1 var2 var3
>
> When I try and do anything with mymacro, I get no results returned.
> For instance,
>>sum `mymacro'
> gives me sum output of all vars.
>>keep `mymacro'
> gives me the error "varlist or in range required". When I try
>>reg outcome `mymacro'
> all I get is a constant value in my reg output. I want to replace
> contents of that varlist with dummies, such that
>>foreach var of local mymacro {
>>     replace `var'=1 if `var'!=0
>>     }
> But obviously, that doesn't work either, because for some reason,
> nothing seems to be stored in my macro.
>
> I am running Stata 12. Thanks for any help.
>
> Brandon Olszewski
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