Hello Statalisters,
I have a dialog form, and an EDIT control on that form contains a
string with possibly local macros embedded in it. E.g.
"Text `alpha' other text"
I need to save/read the contents of this field to/from text file.
If I save the value directly, e.g.
file write ConfigFile `" `"`.my_dlg.main.fi_save.value'"' "' _n
, the macro, which is contained in the value is evaluated and the
result of that is saved.
If I preclude evaluation with a " \ ",
file write ConfigFile `" `"\`.my_dlg.main.fi_save.value'"' "' _n
then I have
`.my_dlg.main.fi_save.value'
in my file, which will be evaluated when the file is to be read (which
is wrong).
So how do I tell Stata, that the string that I want to save is the
VALUE of an EDIT control (equally applies to all other controls and
string properties) taken AS-IS with all locals left unevaluated? Note
that
classutil des .my_dlg.main.fi_save.value
also shows the evaluated value, rather than the "contents" of the field
For those who do not want to deal with the dialogs, here is a similar
problem with locals:
local b "bar"
local f `"foo \`b'"' // Have to preclude with \
di `"f is:`f'"'
di `"b is:`b'"'
di `"\f is:\`f'"'
di `"\b is:\`b'"'
local c "`f'"
di `"c is:`c'"'
// I want to see: foo `b'
Any ideas how can I get the contents of the macro in this way without
all macros that it contains being evaluated?
Thank you,
Sergiy
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