RE: st: RE: -foreach-, local macro, -split- command

[David Torres <torresd@umich.edu>]

The point, I think, is to get those several values stored in the  
single variable split into several variables so that the data can then  
be reshaped long and merged with other data.  An easier, quicker  
command would be nice, but if I have to do it dirty, then so be it.   
This would, of course, require the creation of several subcommands in  
my loop to create "carrier" variables for my strings that can each be  
separately split and later renamed to denote a panel.  Oh, it's ugly,  
to be sure.

But perhaps I can approach this another way.  I have tried using the  
generate command within my loop, adding a stub to the local, but that  
seems somewhat more complicated than what I've discussed here so far.

David Torres
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