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Re: AW: st: Creating local from levelsof exceeding 255 characters
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: AW: st: Creating local from levelsof exceeding 255 characters
Date
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:22:07 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Fri, 14/1/11, Palan, Stefan wrote:
> What I do is, I fill my local "a" with the levelsof some
> variable. The local a then contains some 100 numbers. But
> then, I need to create a local that contains a string that
> looks like "t1 t2 t4 t7...". In other words, it needs to
> contain an entry for each number in a, but with a leading
> "t", because my variable names are t1, t2, etc.
One way to do this is to:
1) make sure that each element in your list is separated by
one space (extended macro function -list retokenize-)
2) replace each " " with " t" (extended macro function
-subinstr-)
3) this only leaves the first element without a t prefix, so
add that initial t.
Putting this all together:
*--------------- begin example -------------------
// create a variable such that a string listing
// all its values is longer than 245 characters
drop _all
set obs 500
gen id = _n
// store that string in locals
levelsof id, local(levs)
// makes sure that elements separated by one space
// this is probably superfluous since this is created
// by -levelsof-, but it does not hurt.
local levs : list retokenize levs
// replace space with space and "t"
local levs : subinstr local levs " " " t", all
// add the initial "t"
local levs "t`levs'"
// do the loop
foreach lev of local levs {
di "`lev' "
}
*--------------- end example ----------------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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