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From | philippe van kerm <philippe.vankerm@ceps.lu> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | st: RE: assign several lines of syntax to local? |
Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:35:09 +0200 |
A simple alternative to trying feeding commands in a local is to define a -program- in the do file, e.g. program define chunk display "whatever" summarize count codebook end use file1 ... chunk ... use file2 ... chunk ... etc. Philippe > -----Message d'origine----- > De : owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner- > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] De la part de raoul reulen > Envoyé : Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:33 AM > À : statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > Objet : st: assign several lines of syntax to local? > > Hello All > > I have a large do-file in which a few lines of syntax come back > several times. It is possible to assign a local to the lines of syntax > so that I don't have to repeat it all the time? I don't want to use a > loop for this. The "include" command does something similar, but I > would have to save the relevant syntax in a separate file which I > don't want. So, essentially I would like to assign several lines of > syntax to a local, is this possible? Are there alternatives? Thanks. > > BW > > Raoul > * > * 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/