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Re: st: Modifying the content of a macro


From   Thomas Speidel <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Modifying the content of a macro
Date   Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:47:57 -0600

Thanks Nick and Jeph. That's exatly what I needed.

Quoting Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> Wed 28 Jul 13:26:41 2010:

The -list- directive is not working because you substracting
a string rather than a macro. You can either store "length" in
a separate macro and then substract that in your statement #2, or
instead try

  local nolength = subinstr("`main'","length","",.)

hth,
Jeph

On 7/28/2010 3:11 PM, Thomas Speidel wrote:
I am writing a loop to cycle through a number of models. For example,

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. local main mpg price weight

. local adjust length gear_ratio turn

. foreach c of local main {
2. local nolength: list adjust - "length"
3. logistic foreign `c' `adjust' if "`c'" != "weight"
4. logistic foreign `c' `nolength' if "`c'" == "weight"
5. }

Which fails on the second model. How do I modify `adjust' so that the
string "length" is removed from its content and applied to the second
set of models? In a less automated fashion, I want:

. logistic foreign mpg length gear_ratio turn
. logistic foreign price length gear_ratio turn
. logistic foreign weight gear_ratio turn

Preferrably, in this order. Creating another macro without "length" is
not ideal, because I am dealing with a much larger set of covariates.
Thanks.

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