Re: st: semicolon in local, under delimit ;

[Nick Winter <njgwinter@gmail.com>]

I suppose the work-around would be to split your lines with comments, 
rather than by changing the delimiter:

mycommand that has very long ///
    syntax that goes over     ///
    many lines


On 2/6/2014 4:32 PM, David Kantor wrote:
> Hello,
> I find that if I have...
>
> #delimit ;
>
> local m1  "abc;def";
> disp "`m1'";
>
> -- that works as expected, but...
>
> local m2  `"abc;def"';
> disp "`m2'";
>
> chokes on the -local- command. It appears to stop at the first 
> semicolon, and renders an "invalid syntax" error.
> Apparently, the embedded semicolon signals the end of the command.
>
> Notice that this happens with compound quotes, but not with simple 
> quotes.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this? -- a solution?
> I need to use compound quotes because the actual situation has a macro 
> with components that have embedded spaces -- so that -foreach- will 
> pick up segments of the macro having embedded spaces. Thus, for example,
> local m3 `""first item" "second item""'
> --is constructed so that -foreach- yields two pieces:
> first item
> second item
> --rather than four pieces:
> first
> item
> second
> item
>
> And the real-life application is too big to put on one line, so I use 
> #delimit ;.
> It worked fine until I added an item having an embedded semicolon.
>
> I use Stata 10. (I plan to upgrade soon.)
>
> Thanks
> --David
>
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