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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Attaching a set of local macros to a dataset |
| Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:23:02 +0100 |
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Amadou DIALLO wrote: > I thought of char: > char _dta[one] `macro1' > but in the created pr file, I can't find a way to put back the > contents of the char into a local macro. The command: > loc macro1 `_dta[one] > is not working. *------------- begin example --------------- sysuse auto // add the characteristics char _dta[foo] "hello world" // save the file tempfile temp save `temp' // load the file use `temp' // put the characteristic in local macro bar local bar : char _dta[foo] // display the content of local macro bar di "`bar'" *-------------- end example ---------------- (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see: http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq ) Hope this helps, Maarten --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/