Re: st: AW: Trouble with quotes in defining macro

[Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk>]

I am running a series of cox regressions using stcox, and displaying the 
results in a table using esttab.
I wanted to use the labels of certain variables as the column headers.
The option in esttab would be to have mtitle("Model 1" "Model 2" "Model 3")
so I was trying to create a local containing the string ""lab1" "lab2" 
"lab3"" to put in this option.
I have tried using compound quotes but have no experience of using these 
and cannot get a code that works.
BW
Miranda

I want to put variable labels as the column

Martin Weiss wrote:
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> My advice would be for you to provide the entire context of your problem.
> There are solutions to the specific question you are asking, but I am quite
> sure there is a way to avoid these awkward quotes...
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> HTH
> Martin
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> I have the following problem:
>
> Within a loop I want to define a macro as follows:
>
> Foreach var of varlist var1 var2 var3 {
> local varlabs `varlabs' "`:var l `var''"
> }
>
> I want the macro varlabs to contain the following string ““lab1” “lab2” 
> “lab3””, where lab1 is the label for var1 etc.
> But I’m having problems with the quotes.
> I then want to use this local as an argument in another command and that 
> is why I wish it in this format with quotes around each label.
> I am using stata 10.
> Many thanks for your help.
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