okay Jeff, Thank you. I have to try this out.
Ashim.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I posted this earlier, but it didn't seem to go through. Here
> again
>
> ...
>
> Here's a code which creates a do-file which will reassign all
> the local macros. The only thing that needs to be fixed is that
> it should have embedded quotes and as usual I can't seem to get
> them right and I am off for lunch etc now.
>
> * ----------- for testing
>
> local test "This one"
>
> *------------- save locals ------------------
> capture log close
> log using mylocals.txt, text replace
> macro list
> log close
> file open logfile using mylocals.txt, read
> file open mylocals using mylocals.do, replace write
> file read logfile line
> while r(eof)==0 {
> local lname : word 1 of "`line'"
> if strpos("`lname'","_")==1 {
> local lval : subinstr local line "`lname'" ""
> local lname : subinstr local lname "_" ""
> local lname : subinstr local lname ":" ""
> * next line should have embedded quotes for last token
> file write mylocals "local `lname' `lval'" _n
> }
> file read logfile line
> }
> file close logfile
> file close mylocals
> *----------- done --------------------------
>
>
> This creates a do-file called mylocals.do; if you -include-
> it, it will reload all the local macros that you had when you
> ran it.
>
> hope this helps,
> Jeph
>
> Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I wish to do the following : -
>>
>> stata code
>> .....
>> .....
>> save dataset,replace
>> save list_of_local_macros
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>> I wish to do this as it makes it easier to debug a code, cos then I
>> can use the dataset and the list of macros and run a small program on
>> the output only from that point in the code.
>>
>> Is there a way to save local macros ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Ashim.
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