Thanks.
In fact, that's what I ended up doing to accomplish my purpose: use the
macro extended functions.
if "`var'" == "`:list pctvar & var'"{
Even so, perhaps index() should still report the correct index or, at the
very least, inform us in the help files that it has this limitation,
Fred
At 07:42 AM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
Your wish is granted :)
Since Stata 8, you can get the length of a macro by using the macro
extended function
local macrolen: length local macroname
I'm not sure why you need the index function given the variety of macro
extended string functions available, especially the new(ish) family of
macro list functions but also the subinstr, word count and word # functions.
type whelp macrolists and check out the functions there. Can you identify
something you can't accomplish with the available functions?
Michael Blasnik
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Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
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