Re: st: Is there a way to tell if a local macro contains a particular value

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Yes. See -help macrolists-.

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. unab m_all : m*

. local make "make"

. local in : list make in m_all

. di  `: list make in m_all'
1

. mac li
<other stuff>
_in:            1
_make:          make
_m_all:         make mpg

In your case

foreach v of var var1-var6 {
        if `: list v in myvars'  di "`v' is in the list"
        else di "`v' is not"
}

Nick

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:34 PM,  <Max.Livingston@ny.frb.org> wrote:

> Say I have a local macro with a list of variable names: local myvars var1
> var3 var5.
>
> Now say I'm iterating over all my variables (var1-var6), and want to do
> something if the variable is in `myvars.' Is there a simple way to
> determine this?
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