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Re: st: Locals with two word phrases and graph titles


From   Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Locals with two word phrases and graph titles
Date   Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:39:18 -0400

Patrick, you need external compound quotes:
local makename `""AMC Concord" "AMC Pacer" "Buick LeSabre" "Cad. Deville""'
The rest is fine.
Best, Sergiy Radyakin

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Patrick Flaherty
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am using Stata 13/IC on Windows but I have had the same problem with
>> earlier versions.  When I try to loop through a local of two word
>> phrases to put titles on graphs, I can't seem to get the behavior I
>> want.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> clear all
>> sysuse auto, clear
>
>
>> local makename "AMC Concord" "AMC Pacer" "Buick LeSabre" "Cad. Deville"
> local makename `""AMC Concord" "AMC Pacer" "Buick LeSabre" "Cad. Deville""'
>
>
>>
>> forvalues m = 1/4{
>> local cname: word `m' of `makename'
>> twoway scatter mpg price, title(`"Fake `cname' Data"') name(graph_`m')
>> }
>>
>> This produces four graphs.  The first one titled
>> Fake AMC Data, but I want it to say Fake AMC Concord Data
>>
>> The second the title is Fake Concord" Data -- that extra double quote
>> shows up in other graphs I tried to create as well.  Usually the extra
>> double quote appears at the end of the title of the first graph in a
>> loop.
>>
>> The third and fourth graphs look fine -- AMC Pacer and Buick LeSabre
>> are correct, but of course there is no Cad. Deville, which is what I
>> wanted for graph 4.
>>
>> When I change 1/4 to 1/5 the Cad. Deville graph is correctly drawn but
>> now I have 5 graphs when I only wanted 4.
>>
>> If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong I would appreciate some help.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Patrick J. Flaherty
>> Coventry, Connecticut
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