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From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | RE: st: Macro escape inside a macro |
Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:19:08 +0100 |
Eric gave one answer. A second is to check out -macval()-. A third is to report that in my experience as a programmer most of the interest in doing this arises from a misconception that it is necessary. It is, I assert, usually unnecessary and poor Stata programming style. But only a description of the underlying problem could reveal whether that applies in this case. A search of the archives for "delayed substitution" will reveal pertinent threads. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Eric Booth See: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/backslash.html ****! local one string local two "`one'" di "`two'" di "\`two'" ****! On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Aleksander Rutkowski wrote: > displays empty string? > > How can I escape macro (i.e. prevent macro substitution) inside > another macro (i.e. when defining another macro)? * * 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/