Others noted the main difficulty.
The example here may not be the real problem. Even if it isn't,
the alternative solution of generating the contents
of such a list by a loop is worth noting.
forval i = 1/50 {
local list "`list' `: di %02.0f `i'"
}
That is, the little twist here of leading zeros is soluble
by an in-line format.
Nick
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Jean-Benoit Hardouin
>
> I have a small problem to use macros in the return command of
> a program.
>
> See the following program :
>
> program define pgmmac, rclass
> local essai 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
> 17 18 19 20 21
> 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
> 42 43 44 45 46
> 47 48 49 50
> return local mac `essai'
> end
>
> then type
> . pgmmac
> . return list
> macros:
> r(mac) : "01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
> 16 17 18 19 20
> 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
> 41 42 43 44 45
> 46 47 48 49 50"
>
> It's OK.
>
> But if I want to save this macro r(mac) in an other macro I
> have a problem
> (limit to 80 characters) :
>
> . local jb=r(mac)
>
> . di "`jb'"
> 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> 21 22 23 24 25
> 26 2
>
> . local jb r(mac)
>
> . di "`jb'"
> r(mac)
>
> How solve this problem and to save all the characters of the
> macro r(mac)?
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