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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: string question |
| Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:05:45 +0100 |
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mata : st_local("fivefrogs", 5 * "frog")
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> . di _dup(5) "frog"
> frogfrogfrogfrogfrog
>
> . local fivefrogs : di _dup(5) "frog"
>
> . di "`fivefrogs'"
> frogfrogfrogfrogfrog
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Thomas <thomas.triebs@cantab.net> wrote:
>
>> I need to define macros with a few words that are repeated many times like:
>>
>> global macro a ..... b .....
>>
>> Is there any string function that allows to to repeat a word x times?
>
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