Your problem is exactly what the error message says - code on the same line as the open brace ("{"). Having set the delimiter to ";", all the code up to the next ";" is interpretted as one line. Remove your two -#delimit- statements and the ";" and it should run fine.
David
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ada Ma [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 15 February 2005 12:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: setting global in a loop
Hello Statalist,
I have a problem. When I run the following program:
#delimit;
foreach i of numlist 3(1)6 {
local j : di char(`i'+96)
global `j'indvars "pid `j'hid";
}
#delimit cr;
I got an error code r(198) with a comment saying:
"program error: code follows on the same line as open brace"
I am working on the BHPS and I hope that I can draw the same variables out from
the various waves using globals combined with a loop. Am I doing anything wrong
or is global not allowed in a loop?
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ada Ma
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