Dear Statalist,
I am having the following problem. I have a program that uses a local
rhsvars that looks like "x1 x2 x3 x4 x5". I would like to be able
to use a shortcut and write it as "x1-x5" or as "x*". However, this runs
into the problem that when I tokenize this local later on in the
program, it does not create locals 1-5 containing x1 through x5, just a
local named 1 that contains the text "x1-x5". Is there a way to expand
rhsvars from its abbreviated form and redefine so that the tokenize
command works?
I am not sure if there is a command that already does this, but I could
not find it in the manual or online. I will be very grateful if someone
could help me out.
Dimitriy Masterov
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