local all variables

[marvin2jh]

I would like to reference all variables using local or tokenize. But I don't know how to reference the whole variables. Could you let me know how to do them?

[Sergiy Radyakin]

sysuse auto, clear
ds
local varlist `r(varlist)'
display "`varlist'"

[Phil Schumm]

The command

unab foo: _all

will place all of the variables in the current dataset in the local macro foo.

[Nick Cox]

describe, varlist is here an alternative to ds. There is nothing wrong with Sergiy's solution, but since ds was introduced, describe has been extended to do this directly.