Splitting local macro or string with line break

[Karishma DSouza]

Hi. I would like to do the following in a do file

local list `"  "worldwide", "argentina",  "australia", "austria", "belgium", "brazil", "canada", ///
"chile", "china", "colombia", "denmark", "finland", "france", "germany", "greece", ///
"hong kong", "india", "ireland", "israel", "italy", "japan" , "luxembourg",        ///
"malaysia", "mexico", "netherlands", "new zealand", "norway", "peru", "us", "eu",  ///
"philippines", "portugal", "russian federation", "south africa", "south korea",   ///
"spain", "sweden", "switzerland", "thailand", "turkey", "uk", "usa", "venezuela"  "'

So I would like to split the string over multiple lines using the line-join operator. However it does not seem to work. Neither does trying to change the delimiter (#delimit ; ). Could someone please explain the correct method of splitting a long local string over multiple lines?

[William Lisowski]

This works for me; how does your situation differ?

#delim ;
local list `"  "worldwide", "argentina",  "australia", "austria", "belgium", "brazil", "canada", 
"chile", "china", "colombia", "denmark", "finland", "france", "germany", "greece", 
"hong kong", "india", "ireland", "israel", "italy", "japan" , "luxembourg", 
"malaysia", "mexico", "netherlands", "new zealand", "norway", "peru", "us", "eu", 
"philippines", "portugal", "russian federation", "south africa", "south korea", 
"spain", "sweden", "switzerland", "thailand", "turkey", "uk", "usa", "venezuela"  "';
#delim cr
macro list _list

. #delim ;
delimiter now ;
. local list `"  "worldwide", "argentina",  "australia", "austria", "belgium", "brazil", "canada
> ", 
> "chile", "china", "colombia", "denmark", "finland", "france", "germany", "greece", 
> "hong kong", "india", "ireland", "israel", "italy", "japan" , "luxembourg", 
> "malaysia", "mexico", "netherlands", "new zealand", "norway", "peru", "us", "eu", 
> "philippines", "portugal", "russian federation", "south africa", "south korea", 
> "spain", "sweden", "switzerland", "thailand", "turkey", "uk", "usa", "venezuela"  "';

. #delim cr
delimiter now cr
. macro list _list
_list:           "worldwide", "argentina", "australia", "austria", "belgium", "brazil",
                "canada", "chile", "china", "colombia", "denmark", "finland", "france",
                "germany", "greece", "hong kong", "india", "ireland", "israel", "italy", "japan"
                , "luxembourg", "malaysia", "mexico", "netherlands", "new zealand", "norway",
                "peru", "us", "eu", "philippines", "portugal", "russian federation", "south
                africa", "south korea", "spain", "sweden", "switzerland", "thailand", "turkey",
                "uk", "usa", "venezuela"

.