st: Macro question

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Can anyone help with this macro question:

In a program syntax statement

syntax, vlist(varlist)

I create a local macro vlist which end up containg:

di"`vlist'"

plaghaq_disability plaghaq2 plagpas

I want to use the contents of that macro in an inlist() function like this:

if inlist(parm,"plaghaq_disability", "plaghaq2", "plagpas")

So I need to transform

this list:
plaghaq_disability plaghaq2 plagpas

into this list:

"plaghaq_disability", "plaghaq2", "plagpas" in a macro. I am having 
problems adding the quotation marks.

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Thanks,

Fred Wolfe

Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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