Re: st: getting a list into a macro

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

Thank you to both Sergiy and to David!

Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
> sysuse auto
> generate myvar=substr(make,1,6)
> forvalues i=1/`=_N' {
>   local mylist `"`mylist' `=myvar[`i']'"'  /* do not put equal sign
> after local mylist */
> }
> display `"`mylist'"'
>
> If you expect spaces among your 6 characters you might want to enclose
> `=myvar[`i']' in quotes as well. same if some observations have
> missings.
>
> Regards, Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Richard Goldstein
> <richgold@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > I have a string variable that is 6 characters long -- about 100 observations
> >
> > I want to get each value into one long macro with spaces between each value
> > -- how can I do that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich
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