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st: RE: Mixing global macros with local macros


From   "Jiang, Tao" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Mixing global macros with local macros
Date   Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:37:37 -0400

The macro passing is not right in $skip`i', one work around is:
local i=1
while (`i'<=10){
      local tmp skip`i'
	if $`tmp'~=1{
.......



-----Original Message-----
From: mganz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Mixing global macros with local macros


Dear Listers,

I'm running Stata 6.0 and I want to set some global 
macros in one program and then access them, in a 
general way in another.

This is what I want to do:

* In the main program I set the globals
global skip1=1
for num 2/10: global skipX=0
do something


* Then in the something.do file I want to repeatedly
* do some regressions and simulations, but only if
* a $skip macro is not equal to 1
local i=1
while (`i'<=10){
	if $skip`i'~=1{
		reg y x w z, if b==`i'
		* etc, etc
	}
	local i=`i'+1
}

But when the while-loop expands the $skip`i' it doesn't 
expand it to $skip1, $skip2, etc.

How can I accomplish this in a generalized and hopefully
not too cumbersome way?

Thanks,
Michael

________________________________________
Michael Ganz, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Maternal and Child Health
Harvard School of Public Health
[email protected]
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/ganz
Ph. 617-432-2382
Fax 617-432-3755

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