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Re: st: assign values of a variable to a macro


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: assign values of a variable to a macro
Date   Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:04:31 +0000 (GMT)

--- Jacob Wegelin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there an elegant way to place the contents of a string variable
> into a macro?

You can store a list of values of a variable in a macro using
 -levelsof- and you can store a variable in a matrix using -mkmat-.

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands

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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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