Long local macro with line breaks

[Rocio Nunez]

Hi I have this long code:
local varlist1 "AMAZONAS ANCASH APURIMAC AREQUIPA AYACUCHO CAJAMARCA CALLAO CUSCO HUANCAVELICA HUANUCO ICA JUNIN LALIBERTAD LAMBAYEQUE LIMA LORETO MADREDEDIOS MOQUEGUA PASCO PIURA PUNO SANMARTIN TACNA TUMBES UCAYALI"

I've tried to use /// to break it in lines but I keep getting the message sintax error. Do you have any idea how to solve this issue?

[William Lisowski]

A string cannot be continued over several lines using the "///" continuation indicator. The easiest way of handling this is to temporarily change the command delimiter character from the carriage return to a semicolon. For more details, see the output of help delimit, and here is an example using your code.

#delimit ;
local varlist1 "AMAZONAS ANCASH APURIMAC AREQUIPA AYACUCHO CAJAMARCA
CALLAO CUSCO HUANCAVELICA HUANUCO ICA JUNIN LALIBERTAD LAMBAYEQUE
LIMA LORETO MADREDEDIOS MOQUEGUA PASCO PIURA PUNO SANMARTIN TACNA
TUMBES UCAYALI";
#delimit cr
macro list _varlist1

. macro list _varlist1
_varlist1:      AMAZONAS ANCASH APURIMAC AREQUIPA AYACUCHO CAJAMARCA CALLAO
                CUSCO HUANCAVELICA HUANUCO ICA JUNIN LALIBERTAD LAMBAYEQUE LIMA
                LORETO MADREDEDIOS MOQUEGUA PASCO PIURA PUNO SANMARTIN TACNA
                TUMBES UCAYALI

[Nick Cox]

You can do something like this too:

local varlist1 AMAZONAS ANCASH APURIMAC AREQUIPA AYACUCHO CAJAMARCA CALLAO CUSCO HUANCAVELICA HUANUCO ICA JUNIN

local varlist1 `varlist1' LALIBERTAD LAMBAYEQUE LIMA LORETO MADREDEDIOS MOQUEGUA PASCO PIURA PUNO SANMARTIN TACNA TUMBES UCAYALI

[Rocio Nunez]

Thank you both! It worked.