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RE: st: local variable within a global macro?


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: local variable within a global macro?
Date   Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:20:46 +0100

Nick 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of 
> Vimalanand S.
> Prabhu
> Sent: 29 August 2006 14:09
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: local variable within a global macro?
> 
> 
> Try changing to `$X`p''
> 
> Prabhu
> 
> Nishant Dass wrote:
> > Dear list-members, 
> > 
> > I have a small (or so it seems) problem with a loop (shown
> > below).  
> > 
> > I start by generating a few global macros:
> > global X2 "age2 weight2 height2"
> > global X3 "age3 weight3 height3"
> > ...
> > global X11 "age11 weight11 height11"
> > 
> > Then I try to run the following set of regressions using a
> > loop:
> > forvalues n = 1/10 {
> > 	local p = `n' + 1
> > 	reg y`n' $X`p'
> > }
> > 
> > However, this isn't executed due to an error that says "2
> > invalid name" (i.e., it's referring to some problem in the
> > way I have used `p' in $X`p'.)
> > 
> > Could anyone please tell me what would be the correct way
> > to do this?  
> > 
> > Thank you very much for your help.
> > 
> > Nishant
> > 
> > 
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