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st: Re: Can a global macroname act as a prefix?


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: Can a global macroname act as a prefix?
Date   Tue, 8 May 2007 10:14:59 -0400

Thank you, Michael. ${b}_x does work. I'd been confused by the examples on p. 182 of the programming manual (V9), because they put (macro) suffixes inside the brackets.

Steve

On May 8, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Michael Blasnik wrote:


You need to put braces {} around global names so Stata can tell where they end -- local don't have this problem because they include `' to enclose the full name.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Samuels" <[email protected]>

global b= "global"
My question: Can I create a variable named "global_x" using the global variable $b ?
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