Re: st: RE: saving local macros

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

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I think that's what do-files are for.

Nevertheless: how about building up a matrix which contains the local 
macros you encounter, which you then save into a variable? You could 
then recover the local macros with -levelsof-, for example.

But I guess a do-file is the more straightforward approach...

HTH,
Philipp


Ashim Kapoor wrote:
> I somehow feel that you can save local macros in a way other than
> using -notes- can you ??
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim.
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I don't see that where they came from has any bearing on the question.
> > If you have locals accessible in your session, you can save them
> > (although not -save- them directly).
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > Ashim Kapoor
> >
> > Umm the local macros are created on the way to using / saving  a data
> > set, so I can't just define them on my own, hence the need to save
> > them. They are cooked along the way.
> >
> > As Maarten said I can   use " notes " but I dunno how to recover them
> > from notes.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > You could put a series of definitions in a do-file and then -run- or
> > > -do- when you reload the dataset.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> > >
> > > Ashim Kapoor
> > >
> > > I wish to do the following : -
> > >
> > > stata code
> > > .....
> > > .....
> > > save dataset,replace
> > > save list_of_local_macros
> > > ...
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I wish to do this as it makes it easier to debug a code, cos then I
> > > can use the dataset and the list of macros and run a small program on
> > > the output only from that point in the code.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to save local macros ?
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