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st: RE: command's options as macro
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"Sarah Edgington" <[email protected]> 
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st: RE: command's options as macro 
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Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:17:26 -0700 
Try without the quotation marks around `note1'
If you expand out the macro it's actually tsline hits, "note("1 2011")"
The quotation marks around the options isn't valid Stata syntax.
Hope that helps.
-Sarah
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tashi lama
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: command's options as macro
Hello all, 
       Could someone attempt to explain this to me? I just can't get over
this hump. 
local m1= title[1]
local note1 "note" "(" `"" 1  `m1'" "' ")" 
local note2   1 `m1' 
di "`note1'"
note(" 1  2011" )
di "`note2'"
1 2011
tsline hits, "`note1'"
invalid syntax although if you write it out, it would be  tsline hits,
note("1 2011") which looks fine tsline hits, note("`note2'") stata is happy 
Thanx.. 		 	   		  
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