Re: st: macro list parsing

[Jakob Petersen <jpeterb@essex.ac.uk>]

Thanks a lot - exactly the problem - Jakob

On 17/01/2012 11:28, Maarten Buis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jakob Petersen<jpeterb@essex.ac.uk>  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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Kind regards,
Jakob


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