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Re: st: References for `= foo'
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: References for `= foo'
Date
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:05:32 -0400
Steve, basically you put an equal sign to force evaluation to kick in:
compare:
di "`char(90)'"
di "`=char(90)'"
sysuse auto
di "`price[1]'"
di "`=price[1]'"
local 5 a
di "`3+2'"
di "`=3+2'"
di "``=3+2''"
If there is a function or a reference to a variable in the dataset
that you want to get evaluated, you place '=' in front. Be careful
with strings as string expressions are subject to a rather low chars
limit (not sure about Stata 13).
Best,Sergiy
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have frequently seen (and copied) macros of the type:
>
> `= foo'
>
> One such, in a post by Joseph Coveny on June 19:
>
> set seed `=date("2013-06-20", "YMD")'
>
>
> Can anybody point out references to such " `= foo " usage in the
> Documentation or elsewhere? ( Yes, I've looked, but Adobe Reader's
> search apparently has trouble with "`").
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Steve
> [email protected]
>
>
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