getmacrodata add in for fred data

[zsears]

Hi I am trying to extract fred data using the following commands:

include "filepath"
dbopen(type=fred) fred
fetch fred::{%codes}

and in the external file I define %codes as a list of fred mnemonics
%codes = "var1 var2 var3"
This works fine for several thousand variables.

However, for an even longer list I thought to make the list vertical to avoid any horizontal limits and also to be easier to read, as in
%codes = "var1 _
var2 _
var3"

But this separation of the lines does not work in the list. I have tried "_" " _" " _ ", that is no space and spaces before and after the underscore.

Any suggestions to try.

Thanks

Zach Sears

[EViews Gareth]

You can't use an underscore inside quotes to denote the new line.

If you really want to put them on a new line, you'd have to do:

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%codes = "var1 " +  _
"var2 " + _
"var3 " + _
"var4 "


[zsears]

got it thanks.