Hello Phil,
thank you for this reply. I wonder if there is any way to change this
behaviour of Mata? I would really want to have full control of my
strings as I have in other languages.
Thanks to Phil's suggestion the issue is now resolved.
Best regards,
Sergiy
On 8/22/07, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
> > stata("local _AAA=month(d(`c(current_date)'))",1,1)
> > mc=strtoreal(st_local("_AAA"))
> >
> > This code produces the result I want, e.g. mc becomes equal to 8.
> > However, after compiling the procedure into an .mo file, I can see
> > that the call is stored as:
> >
> > local _AAA=month(d(22 Aug 2007))
> >
> > note that 22 Aug 2007 is today's date. There seems to be no difference
> > whether I specify no-macro-expansion parameter or not.
> >
> > Where is a mistake?
>
>
> Sorry, I didn't tell you your mistake, though you've pretty much
> figured it out for yourself. In Mata, macro expansion is performed
> at compile-time, not at run-time. For more info, see
>
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-08/msg00852.html
>
> and
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-04/msg00836.html
>
>
> -- Phil
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