I meant a local Macro.
if I say
local m=3.123442
how do I say format %6.2f m and get the right result.
Thank you for your time and effort.
Ashim.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Ashim Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I meant a local variable.
>
> In Stata there exists no such thing as a local variable. There are
> macros which can be local or global (described in -help macro-), and
> usually refered to as locals and globals though I assume that their
> full name is local macro and global macro. There are also temporary
> variables, which are described in -help tempvar-.
>
> So I repeat my question, which one do you mean?
>
> -- Maarten
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