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Re: st: create local macro or string with line break


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: create local macro or string with line break
Date   Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:23:33 +0100

What you are trying exactly? /// won't work interactively, for
example, but you can define this

1. without using the "  "

2. in a do-file.
Nick
[email protected]


On 27 August 2013 16:51, Puddicombe, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I create a local macro over multiple lines?
>
> My code below does not work and neither does trying to change the delimiter  (#delimit ; etc).
>
> local date_p "2010-12-01 2011-03-03 2011-12-01 2012-02-02 2012-07-06 ///
>                 2010-08-01 2012-09-04 2012-11-02 2012-12-06 2013-01-03 ///
>                 2013-02-01 2013-03-12 2013-04-04 2013-05-01 2013-06-13 ///
>                 2013-07-02 2013-08-09"
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> David Puddicombe
> BC Centre for Disease Control
>
>
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