st: can I use a global macro as a trigger?

[Melanie Leis <melanieleis@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

I have a .do file for which I need to run different sections depending
on whether what I'm doing is a standard or a special scenario.
Ideally, I would like to use a macro to trigger this, so that at the
beginning of my .do file I just have to specify my global type as
standard or special, and then have it automatically know which part of
the code to run.  The idea of what I want to do is something like:

global type standard

if ${type}=="standard" {

"run code"

}
else if ${type}=="special"{

"run other code"

}

I understand that the if command does not work like this (it's looking
for variables), but is there a way that I could use this global
command at the beginning of my .do file to indicate which part of the
code to run?

Thanks!

Melanie
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