Re: st: long macro

["Dedman, Dan" <D.Dedman@ljmu.ac.uk>]

Thanks all - I eventually worked out the issue evaluating vs. copying macros, but I am still struggling with the double and single quotes (it's a been a while...)
I believe -forval-, -levelsof- and -valuesof- don't help me, either because they sort the values, or they require a numeric variable. I need the values in a pre-specified order.

Dan Dedman
d.dedman@ljmu.ac.uk


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The issue is not whether it is a string. It is that you are evaluating when you should be copying. The limit that bites is different.

Given Stata 9, -while- is less direct than -forval-.

local codelist forval i = 1/`= _N' { local codelist `codelist' `=icd10code[`i']' }

That said, what you want is already provided by either -levelsof- in official Stata or the -valuesof- just announced by Ben Jann.

Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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