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

[David Torres <torresd@umich.edu>]

Thanks, Martin,

-foreach- is not a problem, however.  I can certainly display the  
strings as you show in your example.  What I need to do, on the other  
hand, is get each string into a single variable of its own, but  
attached to the id of the person to which it refers.  Doing this will  
allow for the creation of panel data, which can be reshaped long and  
worked on.

Right now, I can get some of the strings into a single variable using  
the replace in my foreach command code.  Unfortunately, if there are  
observations with several words that, when the characters are added,  
exceed 244 characters, I lose the extra info when I split the variable  
using the split command.

It would be great if I could get all the information that is displayed  
with the display command into unshared variables.

David Torres
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