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Re: st: getting a list into a macro


From   Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: getting a list into a macro
Date   Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:57:23 -0400

Thanks - no embedded spaces, no missing values

Rich

Nick Cox wrote:
forval i = 1/`=_N' {
    local richslongmacro `richslongmacro' `=myvar[`i']'
}

I assume no embedded spaces within values: signal if otherwise.

Nick
[email protected]

Richard Goldstein 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?
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