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Re: st: RE: programs with options


From   David Kantor <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: programs with options
Date   Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:26:39 -0400

To Jean-Benoit Hardouin:

You are referring to `1', `2', `3', etc., which are just the non-blank textual segments of the command line (after the command name). Thus, the final one (`2' in your examples) may include the comma if there is no space after it in the command line.

These are not the same as the elements of the varlist -- until you -tokenize `varlist'-.

So one solution is to put
tokenize `varlist'
into your program, before the `forvalues- statement. But a better way to do this would be...

foreach var of local varlist {
di "`var'"
}

(And you won't need `nbitems'.)

I hope this helps.
-- David

At 05:06 PM 7/11/2003 +0200, you wrote:

See for example

program define testop

syntax varlist(min=2 numeric) [,option1 option2]
local nbitems : word count `varlist'

forvalues i=1/`nbitems' {
di "``i''"
}
end

.testop var1 var2 ,option1
var1
var2

.testop var1 var2, option1
var1
var2,

.testop var1 var2,option1
var1
var2,option1
[...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404

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