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| From | Tomas Lind <tomas.lind@sll.se> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | st: Words surrounded with single quotes in a local macro |
| Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:30:48 +0100 |
Hi all,
I´m setting up number of tempfiles named tf1, tf2, tf3 . . . .
First I create the names and put them into a macro called tempo. That works fine.
The problem is with the second makro, temp2, where I try to store the names `tf1’ `tf2’ `tf3’ . . . enclosed in quotes to be able to use them in an append statement.
I want the append statement to look like this:
append `tf1' `tf2' `tf3' . . .
forvalues i = 1/`Number' { // This many tempfiles
local tempo `tempo' tf`i' // named tf1, tf2, tf3 . . . okey
local tempo2 `tempo2' `"`tf`i''"' // `tf1’ `tf2’ `tf3’ . . . Do NOT work
}
tempfile `tempo' // works fine
Loop that runs several regressions and store
each result in a tempfile
append using "`tempo2'" // Do NOT work
Anyone have a solution on this?
I´m running Stata 13.1 on a PC
Yours
Tomas
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