Thanks, Amadou, Nick, Radu and Maarten! Your emails really helped me
understand local macros more!
Jian
> Jian,
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> You need global.
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> Remember, if you run a dofile with a local,
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> and then rerun only a portion of your dofile,
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> stata will "forget" the local (it assumes its
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> a new dofile session).
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> HTHs.
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> Amadou.
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> Jian Zhang wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I have a question about the local macro. I could not figure out why
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> how to get around it. Hope that you can help me out.
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> Here is the question. In my do file, I have two commands as follows:
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> local IC="IC412 IC413"
> reg y `IC'
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> The question is that when I run the two commands together
> it works. But I found that if I then re-run the second command without
> running the first command, I thought it should give the same results
> since i have already defined the local macro, so I do not need to
> redefine it. It turns out that this time stata treated `IC' as empty.
> That means if I want to run the second command, i always need to run
> the
> two commands together. Am I correct? Any explanations? Is there
> anyway
> to get around this?
> Thanks!
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> Best,
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> Jian Zhang
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