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Re: st: macro list parsing
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: macro list parsing
Date
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:28:49 +0100
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jakob Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying order the variables on one file according to the order on
> another file.
> This works well on the example datasets, e.g.
>
> *********************************************
> sysuse autornd.dta,clear
> ds
> local orderlist `r(varlist)'
> sysuse auto.dta,clear
> d
> order `orderlist',after(turn)
> d
> *********************************************
>
> But returns an error code when I attempt the same on my own data:
>
> variable __000005 not found
> r(111);
It means that you have a temporary variable in your original file, and
this variable obviously does not exist in the other files. You can
exclude temporary variables from the local orderlist by typing
ds __*, not
local orderlist `r(varlist)'
The trick is that temporary variables have, for as long as they exist,
names that start with two underscores.
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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