-valuesof- does not sort and works with strings. Type
. valuesof icd10code
. local codelist `"`r(values)'"'
ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: long macro
>
> OK. -levelsof- certainly sorts (although it has no
> problem with strings).
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Dedman, Dan
>
> > Thanks all - I eventually worked out the issue evaluating vs.
> > copying macros, but I am still struggling with the double and
> > single quotes (it's a been a while...)
> > I believe -forval-, -levelsof- and -valuesof- don't help me,
> > either because they sort the values, or they require a
> > numeric variable. I need the values in a pre-specified order.
>
> Nick Cox
>
> > That said, what you want is already provided by either
> > -levelsof- in official Stata or the -valuesof- just announced
> > by Ben Jann.
>
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