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Re: st: save "`table1'"
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Statalist Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: save "`table1'"
Date
Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:36:34 -0600
On Dec 27, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Rongrong Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got a sample program in which it has a line
>
> save "`table1'"
>
> notice ` symbol? I wonder if that is a typo
The characters ` and ' denote expansion of a local macro. In this case, table1 is the macro name, and this is presumably defined somewhere above in the program or do-file. For more information, see [U] 18.3 Macros.
-- Phil
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