Dear Jian Zhang:
The /* and */ mean "ignore whatever is between", including returns. What happens in your case is
that the start comment sign /* is now part of a string, so it is not evaluated as such. One way to
solve this is to set the delimiter to ; before defining the local and set it back again to hard
return afterwards. You can do that like this:
#delim ;
local i "prest_ p309_ p310_ p311_ p312_ p313_ p313c_
p314_ p3141_ p3142_ p315_ p316_ p317_
p318_ p3191_" ;
#delim cr
HTH,
Maarten
--- Jian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Due to the lengh width limit of the do file editor, i have to continued
> the command in the next line by using mark /*. But it seems that when I used this
> mark to define a local macro, it doesn't work. For example,
>
> the command is as follows.
>
> local i "prest_ p309_ p310_ p311_ p312_ p313_ p313c_ /*
> */ p314_ p3141_ p3142_ p315_ p316_ p317_ p318_ p3191_"
>
> stata returns with an error message saying invalid syntax.
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