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st: RE: Extracting a variable of a varliable list


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Extracting a variable of a varliable list
Date   Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:12:34 +0100

In addition to other suggestions: 

tokenize "`varlist'" 
local y "`1'" 
mac shift 
local x "`*'" 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Thomas Corneli�en

> I want to write an ado file using the -syntax- command as follows:
> 
> syntax varlist(min=2) [if] [in]
> 
> The first variable in varlist is the dependent variable, the 
> others are the 
> independent variables. I need to access them seperately in my 
> ado-file.
> Therefore I create a local that contains the name of the 
> dependent variable, 
> i.e. the first word of the varlist-string, and a local that 
> contains all the 
> rest and can be used as a varlist of only the independent variables.
> 
> local depvar=word("`varlist'",1)
> 
> local 
> indepvar=substr("`varlist'",length("`depvar'")+1,length("`varlist'"));
> 
> My problem is that if the varlist is very long, it gets cut 
> off at the 81st 
> character. It seems that both the -length- and the -substr- 
> function can 
> only be applied to strings up to 81 characters.
> 
> I tried also to precede 'varlist' in the -syntax- command by 
> 'varname', 
> 'name' or 'anything' to capture the independent variable, but 
> that returns 
> error messages.
> 
> Can anybody suggest a better way to do what I want to do? Is 
> there a good 
> way of splitting one varlist into two varlists?

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