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Re: st: RE: Macro question


From   David Kantor <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Macro question
Date   Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:44:49 -0500

At 10:06 AM 3/15/2005 -0600, Fred Wolf wrote:
Thanks Nick and Nick.

I modified the code slightly for my application, and I get the same error with the two suggested methods. Suggestion?

local vlist: list clean vlist
local olist : subinstr local vlist `" "' `"", ""' , all
local olist `""`olist'""'
di "`olist'"


callparmby "reg totcost03 age sex `var'",fwrelabel pformat(%9.3f) eformat(%9.1f) vlist(plaghaq_ plaghaq2 plagpas)
plaghaq_disability", "plaghaq2", "plagpas"" invalid name
r(198);

Fred
[...]
Try compound quotes on the di.
di `"`olist'"'

But also be careful in passing such macros as parameters. Quotes can get stripped.
Similarly, when handling such macros in general, always use compound quotes, and watch out for places where quotes get stripped -- at least the outermost quotes.

HTH
-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404
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