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Re: st: Limit of numlist


From   Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Limit of numlist
Date   Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:46:26 -0400

Yes...thank you...that seems like a better way to adress this issue.

Thank you,
Alan

On 10/6/05, Nick Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
> This doesn't speak to the numlist limit question, but your code could
> simply use -forvalues- rather than -foreach ... numlist-.
>
> There is no reason to have Stata create and store the numlist, rather
> than simply iterate through the values from 1 to N.
>
> Your code could be:
>
> forvalues i = 1/`l' {
>          ...
> }
>
> Or even better,
>
> forvalues i = 1/`=_N' {
>          ...
> }
>
> That is, you can skip the -count- and just have Stata evaluate the
> macro expression `=_N'.
>
> --Nick WInter
>

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