[P] tokenize does address this: "...nonspace parsing character are saved in
the number macros together with the tokens being parsed..."
Here is one way around this problem:
macro drop _all
local test 1 | 2 | 3
local foo : subinstr local test "|" " ", all
tokenize "`foo'"
mac dir
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Elliott
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Behaviour of -tokenize- shouldn't it drop the parsing
> character?
<snip>
> *Should* tokenize be returning the parsing character as positional
> macros in addition to the parsed text? This appears to be the
> behaviour regardless of the parsing character chosen although the
> default parsing on " " does not do this. It is not impossible to work
> around (one could use a while "`i'" != "" { loop and increment `i' by
> 2 ), but is contrary to how I would expect the command to work.
> Doubtless the Stata mavens have some good reason for it working in
> this manner, but I fail to see how having a parsing character in the
> positional macro is useful. The -help tokenize- is silent on this
> matter. Is there something I am not grasping here or is there a
> better way of doing this?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> --
> David Elliott
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