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st: Fwd: Neverending loop....


From   Roberto Mura <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Fwd: Neverending loop....
Date   Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:41:13 +0100

Hi everyone I am a PHD student in Economics in York University (UK). I have been working on a do file, trying to re-rank some 60 variables I have in my database. My problem is that i cannot make my loop a "smart" loop so to speak. My re-ranking do file (is probably very inefficient because i am relatively new to Stata) is based on pair-wise differences among variables. So I need Stata to keep on performing the series of programs I wrote until the condition that none of these 59 differences is negative. I have been able to create a "dumb loop" like: local i=1 while `i' <=23 { set more off quietly zero quietly primo quietly secondo finale_bis display `i' local i=`i'+1 }

it takes 23 iterations until all differences are >=0

What I would need is for stata to do something like

while diff1<0 | diff2<0 | diff3<0 | diff4<0 | diff5<0 |diff6<0 |diff7<0 |diff8<0 |diff9<0 |diff10<0 | diff11<0 | diff12<0 | diff13<0 | diff14<0 | diff15<0 |diff16<0 |diff17<0 |diff18<0 |diff19<0 |diff20<0 | diff21<0 | diff22<0 | diff23<0 | diff24<0 | diff25<0 |diff26<0 |diff27<0 |diff28<0 |diff29<0 |diff30<0 | diff31<0 | diff32<0 | diff33<0 | diff34<0 | diff35<0 |diff36<0 |diff37<0 |diff38<0 |diff39<0 |diff40<0 | diff41<0 | diff42<0 | diff43<0 | diff44<0 | diff45<0 |diff46<0 |diff47<0 |diff48<0 |diff49<0 |diff50<0 | diff51<0 | diff52<0 | diff53<0 | diff54<0 | diff55<0 |diff56<0 |diff57<0 |diff58<0 |diff59<0 { set more off quietly zero quietly primo quietly secondo finale_bis }

Now, for some reason I cannot explain myself, it works for only 9 iterations and then it stops. So it is not "understanding" the if condition properly.This statement is reinforced by the fact that if I run this when only, say, 3 more iterations are needed it does nothing as after the first nine.

The third and last way I could come up with was to "encapsulate" that huge if condition into a single variable......

by firm: gen elio=1 replace elio=0 if diff1<0 | diff2<0 | diff3<0 | diff4<0 | diff5<0 |diff6<0 |diff7<0 |diff8<0 |diff9<0 |diff10<0 | diff11<0 | diff12<0 | diff13<0 | diff14<0 | diff15<0 |diff16<0 |diff17<0 |diff18<0 |diff19<0 |diff20<0 | diff21<0 | diff22<0 | diff23<0 | diff24<0 | diff25<0 |diff26<0 |diff27<0 |diff28<0 |diff29<0 |diff30<0 | diff31<0 | diff32<0 | diff33<0 | diff34<0 | diff35<0 |diff36<0 |diff37<0 |diff38<0 |diff39<0 |diff40<0 | diff41<0 | diff42<0 | diff43<0 | diff44<0 | diff45<0 |diff46<0 |diff47<0 |diff48<0 |diff49<0 |diff50<0 | diff51<0 | diff52<0 | diff53<0 | diff54<0 | diff55<0 |diff56<0 |diff57<0 |diff58<0 |diff59<0

while elio ==1 { quietly drop elio set more off quietly zero quietly primo quietly secondo finale_bis by firm: gen elio=1 replace elio=0 if diff1<0 | diff2<0 | diff3<0 | diff4<0 | diff5<0 |diff6<0 |diff7<0 |diff8<0 |diff9<0 |diff10<0 | diff11<0 | diff12<0 | diff13<0 | diff14<0 | diff15<0 |diff16<0 |diff17<0 |diff18<0 |diff19<0 |diff20<0 | diff21<0 | diff22<0 | diff23<0 | diff24<0 | diff25<0 |diff26<0 |diff27<0 |diff28<0 |diff29<0 |diff30<0 | diff31<0 | diff32<0 | diff33<0 | diff34<0 | diff35<0 |diff36<0 |diff37<0 |diff38<0 |diff39<0 |diff40<0 | diff41<0 | diff42<0 | diff43<0 | diff44<0 | diff45<0 |diff46<0 |diff47<0 |diff48<0 |diff49<0 |diff50<0 | diff51<0 | diff52<0 | diff53<0 | diff54<0 | diff55<0 |diff56<0 |diff57<0 |diff58<0 |diff59<0 }

but that's where I get into a never ending loop! finale_bis produces the number of differences (count if.....) still negative but, after reaching the zero, it keeps on performing the operations.

Thank you all very much for your kind attention
Best regards Ciao
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