help macro, help global, help local,
help tempvar, help tempname, help tempfile
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Title
[P] macro -- Macro definition and manipulation
Syntax
global mname [=exp | :extended_fcn | [`]"[string]"['] ]
local lclname [=exp | :extended_fcn | [`]"[string]"['] ]
tempvar lclname [lclname [...]]
tempname lclname [lclname [...]]
tempfile lclname [lclname [...]]
local { ++lclname | --lclname }
macro dir
macro drop { mname [mname [...]] | mname* | _all }
macro list [ mname [mname [...]] | _all ]
macro shift [#]
[...] `expansion_optr' [...]
where expansion_optr is
lclname
++lclname
lclname++
--lclname
lclname--
=exp
:extended_fcn
.class_directive
macval(lclname)
Description
global assigns strings to specified global macro names (mnames). local
assigns strings to local macro names (lclnames). Both double quotes ("
and ") and compound double quotes (`" and "') are allowed; see quotes.
If the string has embedded quotes, compound double quotes are needed.
tempvar assigns names to the specified local macro names that may be used
as temporary variable names in a dataset. When the program or do-file
concludes, any variables with these assigned names are dropped.
tempname assigns names to the specified local macro names that may be
used as temporary scalar or matrix names. When the program or do-file
concludes, any scalars or matrices with these assigned names are dropped.
tempfile assigns names to the specified local macro names that may be
used as names for temporary files. When the program or do-file
concludes, any datasets created with these assigned names are erased.
macro manipulates global and local macros.
The macro expansion operators expansion_optr are documented in [P] macro
and [P] class. For a description of class_directive, see [P] class.
Also see
Manual: [P] macro
Help: [P] char, [P] display, [D] functions, [P] gettoken, [P] macro
lists, [P] matrix, [P] numlist, [P] return, [P] creturn, [P]
syntax, [P] tokenize, [P] preserve, [P] program, [P] scalar
