Re: AW: st: SV: AW: Output from tabulate to a matrix

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Note that once you change the delimiter, you can
use as many lines as you want - I often have stuff
like this:

  #delimit ;

  local mynames "
	Stockholm
	Uppsala	
	Sodermanland
	Östergötaland
	Jönköping
	Kronoberg
	Kalmar
	Gotland
	Blekinge
	Skåne
	Halland
	VästraGötaland
	Värmland
	Örebro
	Västmanland
	Dalarna
	Gävleborg
	Västernorrland
	Jämtland Västerboten
	Norrbotten
  "
  ;
  #delimit cr

Makes it easier (I think) to review and edit.

cheers,
J



Martin Weiss wrote:
> <> 
>
> Just switch the delimiter temporarily:
>
>
> *************
>
> #delimit ;
>
> local  mynames   "Stockholm  Uppsala  Södermanland  Östergötaland  Jönköping
>
> Kronoberg  Kalmar  Gotland  Blekinge  Skåne  Halland  VästraGötaland 
> Värmland  Örebro  Västmanland  Dalarna  Gävleborg  Västernorrland  Jämtland
> Västerboten  Norrbotten" ;
>
> #delimit cr
>
> ma di
> *************
>
> Some text editors, such as UltraEdit, also feature a "word-wrap" which
> renders long lines readable...
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Tomas Lind
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Januar 2010 17:20
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: SV: st: SV: AW: Output from tabulate to a matrix
>
> Thanks Martin and William for all your help. Very instructive. 
>
> One last question. -local mynames- contains lots of areas so it would be
> nice to have some line-breaks (so it is not just one long row in my
> do-editor). 
>
> local  mynames   "Stockholm  Uppsala  Södermanland  Östergötaland  Jönköping
> Kronoberg  Kalmar  Gotland  Blekinge  Skåne  Halland  VästraGötaland
> Värmland  Örebro  Västmanland  Dalarna  Gävleborg  Västernorrland  Jämtland
> Västerboten  Norrbotten"
>
>
> /Tomas
>
>
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] För Martin Weiss
> Skickat: den 21 januari 2010 16:52
> Till: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Ämne: AW: st: SV: AW: Output from tabulate to a matrix
>
>
> <> 
>
>
> Tomas may also want to read up on this issue in manual [U], section 18.3.9.,
> where the "from the inside" evaluation of nested -macro-s is explained.
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von William Gould,
> StataCorp LP
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Januar 2010 16:36
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: Re: st: SV: AW: Output from tabulate to a matrix
>
> Tomas Lind <tomas.lind@ki.se> asked, 
>
> > Is it possible to store names in a matrix for example "east",
> > "west", "north", "south" and then display the one that I want, for
> > example the 3:rd element "north"?
>
> and Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> replied, 
>
> > Could well be as easy as
> >
> > *************
> > local mynames "nameone nametwo namethree namefour namefive"
> >
> > token `mynames'
> >
> > local mycount: word count `mynames'
> >
> > forv i=1/`mycount'{
> >         //-lincom- statement goes here
> >         di in r "``i''"
> > }
> > *************
>
> and that seemed to be a hit because Tomas then replied, "Perfect."
>
> Given that, here's another, related solution.  Start by defining 
> separate macros for each member of the list:
>
>         . local name1 "north"
>         . local name2 "south"
>         . local name3 "east"
>         . local name4 "west"
>
> Now say we want to display the `i'th name.  We can type:
>
>         . display "`name`i''
>
> For instance, if `i' contained 3, 
>
>         . local i = 3 
>         . display "`name`i''"
>         east
>
> That works because `name`i'' first expands to `name3' (Stata goes inside 
> and substitutes the contents of i for `i'), and then `name3' expands to 
> east in the usual way. 
>
> -- Bill
> wgould@stata.com
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