st: RE: Re: putting string variable values into macros

["reardon, sean f." <sreardon@stanford.edu>]

ah yes ---
thanks ben and michael for the elegant overlooked answer.

sean.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Michael
Blasnik
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:31 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: Re: putting string variable values into macros

Why not:

forv n=1/20 {
local mac`n'=x[`n']
}

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "reardon, sean f." <sreardon@stanford.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: st: putting string variable values into macros
> i want to create a series of local macros that contain the values of a
> string variable:  <snip>
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