st: save list of scalars or locals to file

[<Stefan.Gawrich@hlpug.hessen.de>]

Dan,

excellent solution. Fast and easy. Thank you very much! 

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The four different - file write - lines for scalars/locals and double quoted/not double quoted in output file:

(scalars, not quoted in file)
file write `scs' `"`: display h`x''"' _n

(locals, not quoted in file)
file write `scs' `"`: display `"`h`x''"' '"' _n

(scalars, quoted in file)
file write `scs' `""`: display h`x''""' _n

(locals, quoted in file)
file write `scs' `""`: display `"`h`x''"' '""' _n


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Stefan,

Would writing it out to a txt file work for you?

tempname scs
file open `scs' using "C:\data\sc_data.txt", text write replace forvalues x = 1/`sc' {
   file write `scs' `" `: display h`x'' "' _n } file close `scs'

The line:
   file write `scs' `" `: display h`x'' "' _n

is a condensed version of these two lines:

   local temp : display h`x'
   file write `scs' `" `temp' "' _n

You may want to have the scalar values enclosed in double quotes inside the txt file:

   file write `scs' `""`: display h`x''""' _n

Hope this helps,
Dan Blanchette
Research Programming Services
Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina
Dan_Blanchette@unc.edu



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