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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

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:

got it thanks.