yes, this helped a lot. if i define the macro without using the equal
sign, it works.
thanks for this,
Radu
2008/10/22 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
> see http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-05/msg00629.html
>
> HTH
> Martin _______________________
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Radu Ban" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:39 PM
> Subject: st: creating a varlist
>
>
>> Dear Statalist,
>>
>> I want to generate a variable with the -egen anycount- command.
>>
>> let's say:
>>
>> egen ttt = anycount(`vlist'), v(1)
>>
>> The varlist in the argument is long and the variables have some
>> regularity in their names. They all of the form qX3_1 qX3_2, where X
>> goes from 5 to 46. Note that there are other variables with X between
>> 1 and 4 which I do not want, so that a varlist q*3_1 q*3_2 does not
>> work. To create my variables list I did the following:
>>
>> local vlist ""
>> forvalues n = 5/46 {
>> local vlist = "`vlist' q`n'3_1 q`n'3_2"
>> }
>> *then to check
>> di "`vlist'"
>>
>> However, the display command shows that the macro stops at q23. Am I
>> running into a limit here? I checked help limits and the limit to
>> number of characters in a macro is way higher ( 1,081,511 in Stata
>> SE). If indeed there is a limit, can anyone point out a work around?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Radu
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