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st: RE: Macro problem.


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Macro problem.
Date   Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:24:22 +0100

See help on macrolists for `: list uniq'. 

I know you work at the World Bank, but
I think the trend to keep these things
in locals, not globals. Different point, 
however. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

[email protected]

> I have the following macro problem.
> In my macro, some variable are repeated
> twice or more, and when trying to reshape, I can't.
> It looks like:
> 
> global myvars " v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v1 v6 v4 ......v7 v3"
> 
> So, I have to make sure that I have the variable only
> one time. But sometime, I have hundreds of variables
> when reshaping large datasets. And I can't figure
> visually which are reapeated.
> How to eliminate the doubles?

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