Hey Statalist Community,
Apologies for all the code snippets, but I figured the best way for me to explain the issue and my desired outcome is to provide a reproducible example. I appreciate your help.
Version 13.1
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise
To reproduce the issue, we do not need to execute this first snippet of code. This code, which I shall call Code 01, is only necessary for reference purposes. Consider the following code saved to the working directory as duties.do:
We do need to execute this snippet of code, which I shall refer to as Code 02. Consider the following code:
Upon execution of Code 02, we receive Result 01:
There are two issues:
and simply reproduce the line as it is written?
Thank you
Apologies for all the code snippets, but I figured the best way for me to explain the issue and my desired outcome is to provide a reproducible example. I appreciate your help.
Version 13.1
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise
To reproduce the issue, we do not need to execute this first snippet of code. This code, which I shall call Code 01, is only necessary for reference purposes. Consider the following code saved to the working directory as duties.do:
Code:
// ----- Example 01 ----- //
foreach x of global duties {
replace DutyType`x' = "A" if NAV1`x' != ""
replace AV1`x' = NAV1`x' if DutyType`x' == "A"
replace NAV1`x' = "" if DutyType`x' == "A"
}
// ----- Example 02 ----- //
foreach x of local vars {
replace `x' = subinstr(`x',"'","",.)
}
Code:
file open duties using duties.do, read
file read duties line
while r(eof) == 0 {
display `"`line'"'
file read duties line
}
file close duties
Code:
. file open duties using duties.do, read
. file read duties line
.
. while r(eof) == 0 {
2. display `"`line'"'
3. file read duties line
4. }
// ----- Example 01 ----- //
foreach x of global duties {
replace DutyType = "A" if NAV1 != ""
replace AV1 = NAV1 if DutyType == "A"
replace NAV1 = "" if DutyType == "A"
}
// ----- Example 02 ----- //
foreach x of local vars {
replace = subinstr(,,,.)' invalid name
r(198);
end of do-file
r(198);
.
- In no case do we have `x' reproduced in the display. I realize that Stata is treating `x' as a local macro and substituting the undefined value into the displayed value, but I do not want Stata to do that.
- In Example 02 of Code Result 01, the subinstr(`x',"'","",.) portion is also being interpreted by Stata. I realize that I can fix this issue by using compound-compound double quotes in Code 02, but that results in most lines beginning with `" and ending with "', which I also do not want.
Code:
display `"`line'"'
Thank you