st: Re: Creating a macro of variable names

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

unab vmacro: abc*
global varmacro "`vmacro'"

note: do not use the equal sign when creating string macros, it can truncate 
the result

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hadley" <dhadley@sgul.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: st: Creating a macro of variable names



> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to create a global macro containing certain variable names - 
> but I'm having trouble appending/concatenating macros (as opposed to 
> redefining the macro).
>
> Assuming I have some variables called abc1, abc2, and abc3, here's my 
> do-file so far:
>
> foreach var of varlist abc* {
> global varmacro = `"`$varmacro' `var'"'
> }
>
> This currently only stores (in varmacro) the last abc* variable ("abc3"), 
> whereas I want it to produce a macro of "abc1 abc2 abc3".
>
> I would have though this command could be done in one line rather than 
> using a do-file, but would appreciate any method that works.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave
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