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st: RE: problem with forvalues


From   "Daniel Muller" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: problem with forvalues
Date   Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:14:42 +0700

It looks as if you are using the wrong closing quote for the local macro (*
? * instead of * ' *).

Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Didier Fouarge
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: problem with forvalues
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to loop a tabstat command to compute median income for a
> number of years using
> �forvalues� in a do-file. According to the help function the
> following should be allowed:
>
> forvalues i = 1 2 5/10 {
> 	tabstat Y`i�, by(country) s(p50)
> }
>
> However, I get the following error message:
>
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
> By the way, I get the same error message using other commands
> such as sum Y`i�.
>
> forvalues i = 1/10 { ...  works perfectly.
>
>
> Can anyone help?
>
>
> didier fouarge
>
>
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