If -n- is the name of a scalar defined by
. scalar n = <whatever>
then it should be evaluated on the fly by something like
. local fivefrogs : di _dup(`= scalar(n)') "frog"
I think most experienced Stata programmers tend to use locals to hold something like that.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Thomas
Many thanks. I have one follow up question.
I would like to call a scalar in _dup() like
. local fivefrogs : di _dup(`n') "frog"
For some reason this does not work. How can this be done?
On 07/06/2011 09:37, Nick Cox wrote:
> . di _dup(5) "frog"
> frogfrogfrogfrogfrog
>
> . local fivefrogs : di _dup(5) "frog"
>
> . di "`fivefrogs'"
> frogfrogfrogfrogfrog
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Thomas<thomas.triebs@cantab.net> wrote:
>> I need to define macros with a few words that are repeated many times like:
>>
>> global macro a ..... b .....
>>
>> Is there any string function that allows to to repeat a word x times?
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