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| From | "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | AW: st: minor complaint |
| Date | Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:39:43 +0200 |
<> " learn something new every day." Me too. BTW, if you want the help for Tirthankar`s -numlist- command, you have to type -h nlist-. HTH Martin -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Jeph Herrin Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Juli 2010 22:34 An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Betreff: Re: st: minor complaint That's it - learn something new every day. thanks, Jeph On 7/18/2010 2:49 PM, Tirthankar Chakravarty wrote: > Maybe you can use numlists for this task? > > ********************************* > local mylist 0.5 2.5 12 9 7 2 23 32 > numlist "`mylist'", sort > di "`r(numlist)'" > ********************************* > > > 2010/7/19 Jeph Herrin<stata@spandrel.net>: >> Is there an obvious reason why the list directives >> for locals include a -sort- for text but not a -sort- >> for numbers? >> >> local mylist 0.5 2.5 12 >> local mylist : list sort mylist >> macro list _mylist >> >> Many tasks involve sorting lists, it would be a lot >> easier if I did not always need to write a bubble sort. >> >> Or is there another way to easily sort a numeric list >> stored in macro? >> >> cheers, >> Jeph >> >> >> >> >> * >> * 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/ >> > > > * * 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/ * * 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/