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Re: st: Is this peculiar, or is it me?


From   [email protected] (Shannon Driver, StataCorp)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Is this peculiar, or is it me?
Date   Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:40:37 -0600

Philip Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote:

> I entered some code into Stata and the output was not as I expected. I've
> pasted the log below. Note there is no dataset loaded into memory.
> 
> 
> . do "oddcode"
> 
> . foreach item in thing1 thing2 {
>   2.     di "item: `item'"
>   3.     local foo "a_great_big_fish"
>   4.     foreach var of varlist _all {
>   5.         di "variable: `var'"
>   6.     }
>   7. }
> item: thing1
> variable: a_great_big_fish
> item: thing2
> variable: a_great_big_fish
> 
> .
> end of do-file
> 
> While it's questionable at best to enter the -foreach var of varlist _all-
> with no data loaded, I would not have expected the macro `var' to evaluate to
> the contents of `foo'. Can anyone tell me what is going on here?

We have been able to reproduce this here, too.  We will have this fixed in the
next executable update.

--Shannon Driver
  [email protected]

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