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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 |
also 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? > * * 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/