st: wrap string observation values with double quotation

[tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com>]

Hello all, 

date                title                  hits
01jan2011           Expect strong dec       4
02jan2011           Bearish stock           3
03jan2011           Long summer             5

The idea is to be able to use ttext as follows 

tsline hits, ttext(01jan2011 "Expect strong dec" 02jan2011 "Bearish stock" 03jan2011 "Long summer")

I approached, 

tostring date title, replace 
gen b=date+" "+title 
levelsof b, local(n)
tsline hits, tline(`n')  => stata is unhappy and returns invalid point, because titles are not inside quotation mark

I think I could have this in 2 ways...

1. use replace title to have although I don't know how to( I hope someone will give me a hint)

title 
"Expect string dec"
"Bearish stock"
"Long summer"

2. use one of the string functions like 

levels n, local(n)
di `n'
01jan2011 Expect strong dec 02jan2011 Bearish stock 03jan2011 Long summer 
use subinstr or regexm to generate 
01jan2011 "Expect strong dec" 02jan2011 "Bearish stock" 03jan2011 "Long summer"

subinstr sounds like a perfect fit and I did 
subinstr("`n'","[a-zA-Z]",""[a-zA-Z]"",.)   =>no luck 

Could someone give me an idea how to do it in either ways... 

Thanx, 
Tashi 

  		 	   		  
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