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| From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: literal single quotes |
| Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:38:50 -0000 |
Thanks for the plug. -asciiplot- is by Michael Blasnik, Svend Juul and myself. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Newson, Roger B I think the best way is to use the -char()- function. Type local llquote=char(96) local lrquote=char(39) and the macros -llquote- and -lrquote- will contain literal left and right quotes, respectively. A useful tool for this kind of problem is Nick Cox's -asciiplot-, which you can download from SSC, and which gives you the ASCII codes and their corresponding characters graphically, at a glance. On 04/03/2010 17:21, Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311) wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to define a local macro that contains literal single quotes? For example Suppose I want to do something like > > local bull "count if `temp'> 0" > > where `temp' is to be interpreted literally, not evaluated. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/