Re: st: problem with a macro

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:10 AM 12/20/2005, U.A.QU.AP wrote:
> hello,
> I have a problem with the syntaxe global
> When I type
> global demographe "one NE SOUTH MIDWEST sex_c age_c kids05
> kids610 kids1115 voiture maison" ;
> then
> global D wordcount($demographe) ;
> I expect that stata returns the number 11
> but I get the folowing message when I type
> dis $D
> oneNESOUTHMIDWESTsex_cage_ckids05kids610kids1115voituremaison
> invalid name
> any help
> many thanks
> Abdelrahmen
Try this:

. global D: word count $demographe

. dis $D
11



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