Re: st: combining local macros

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

It's doable. I think you just need to crunch through the possibilities.

foreach y of local b {
      foreach x of local a {
               local xy `xy' `x'`y'
      }
}

At first sight this may seem like something that should be provided
explicitly. (If it is, my ignorance or poor memory is revealed.)
Trouble is, it is easy to think of dozens of such little things that
-- when you need them -- strike you in the same way. So, better to
think that a little work with more general tools gets you there
without too much strain.

Nick

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:47 PM,  <r.a.nobel@umail.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Could someone help me out with the following:
> suppose you have
>
> local a x y z
> local b 1 2
>
> and want to create a new local macro from a and b looking like:
> x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2
>
> Is this possible?
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