Re: st: macro concat

[Keith Dear <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

Perfect, thank you. I don't even need the double quotes:

loc a \`M1'
loc c `macval(a)' `macval(a)'
mac list _c
_c:             `M1' `M1'

(you can't do that with the list operators). With the macval name to 
search by, I found this online (it was "new" in v8, when Stata went 
object-oriented): "A new macro expansion function macval(lclname) 
gives the contents of lclname as is, without recursive expansion."
kd


At 10:12 PM 24/05/2008, you wrote:

> ...
>
> You need to use the macval function: Following the example below:
>
> local c "`macval(a)' `macval(b)'"
>
> macro list
> <snip>
> _c:             `M1' `M2'
> <snip>
>
> Michael Blasnik
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Dear" <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 6:20 AM
> Subject: Re: st: macro concat
>
>
> > No, that doesn't work:
> > . loc M1 hello
> > . loc M2 goodbye
> > . loc a \`M1'
> > . loc b \`M2'
> > . loc c `a' `b'
> > . mac list
> > _c:             hello goodbye
> > _b:             `M2'
> > _a:             `M1'
> > _M2:            goodbye
> > _M1:            hello
> > But I want:
> > _c:             `M1' `M2'
> > Keith
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