Re: st: assign several lines of syntax to local?

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

I thought of that, but then this modification

***************
  sysuse auto
  local test count ; list in 1 ;
  #delimit ;
  `test' ;
***************

produces an error.



On 8/12/2010 11:41 AM, Maarten buis wrote:
> --- On Thu, 12/8/10, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> > Strange, I thought this would work:
> >
> > ***************
> >     sysuse auto
> >     local test count ; list in 1 ;
> >     #delimit ;
> >     `test'
> > ***************
> >
> > but it doesn't produce so much as an error message. Why
> > not?
>
> That probably has to do with the way Stata parses a line.
> My guess would be that the following is happening:
> Stata collects a line till it sees a ;
> only after that does it start evaluating the locals
> Since you did not put a ; after `test', Stata never
> even started evaluating the local, and so never saw
> the contents of `test', and thus did not produce an
> error message.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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