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st: quotes in macros


From   Keith Dear <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: quotes in macros
Date   Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:15:48 +1000

I need to create a global macro containing several filenames, each of which contains a space. This is ok for a short list of short names:

glo list `""file one" "file two" "file three""'

but what I really want is

glo list `""rather long filename one" "rather long filename two" ///
"ridiculously long filename three which takes a whole line" ///
(etc etc) ///
"'

This generates a syntax error, I suppose because quoted strings can't be split over lines.


Note that in a do-file, the following DOES work:

glo list first_filename_with_no_spaces ///
"after the first, quotes strings with spaces are ok" ///
"file three" "file four"

The problem comes only if the first name needs quoting. So a clumsy workaround is:

glo list null "file one" ///
etc

foreach file of any $list {
if "`file'"=="null" continue
...
}

But who wants that?
kd

(using Stata 9.2, Win-XP)














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Australian National University
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