st: postfile - posting a string

[Danielle Ferry <dferry@nber.org>]

Statalisters,
In the example below, I have a local variable containing a list of 
variable names, and in the <postfile> procedure I want to post each 
variable name in that list. In particular, I want the variable "var" in 
the tempfile "predictions" to be a string and to have an entry of "mcd" 
in obs 1 and an entry of "priv" in obs 2. The way it is currently 
written, it posts the VALUE of each variable in the list. Can anyone 
please help with this?
Much thanks,
Danielle Ferry

local insvars "mcd priv ";
tempname memhold;
tempfile predictions;
	
postfile `memhold' var z1 z2 using `predictions';
	
	foreach var of varlist `insvars' {;
		[do stuff]			
		post `memhold' (`var') (`a') (`b');
	};
	
postclose `memhold';
	

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