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Re: Re: st: RE: a simple macro problem
Dear Eva,
Thank you for your help! It works well!
Many thanks~~
Martin
======= 2008-06-29 00:45:25 Original Message��=======
>Martin,
>
>Make that
>
>local dvar=" gov\`j' totalassets"
>
>and it ought to work. Note the backslash character right in front of
>`j'. In Stata, the backslash is an escape character, and prevents the
>immediate substitution of the macro. Compare this:
>
>local j 1
>di " this is macro `j' "
>di " this is macro \`j' "
>
>Eva
>
>2008/6/28 Martin Wang <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Thank you for your advice! But I still want to use the original code since I have other variations on the code. So could anyone help out?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> ======= 2008-06-28 02:57:13 Original Message��=======
>>
>>>foreach gov in any gov1 gov2{
>>> reg sales `gov' totalassets
>>>}
>>>
>>>Not sure where the mistake is in yours, probably something with the local
>>>"dvar" being unable to hold the string you are offering it because the `j'
>>>must be evaluated the moment you define "dvar"...
>>>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: [email protected]
>>>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Wang
>>>Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:53 PM
>>>To: [email protected]
>>>Subject: st: a simple macro problem
>>>
>>>Dear all,
>>>
>>>I have the following macro, but it doesn't work as I expected:
>>>I have gov1, gov2
>>>
>>>
>>>and I wrote:
>>>
>>>local dvar=" gov`j' totalassets"
>>> local j=1
>>>
>>> while `j'<3{
>>> reg sales `dvar'
>>> local j = `j' + 1
>>> }
>>>
>>>I expect this will run sales= gov1 totalassets and sales= gov2 totalassets,
>>>but only the first one ran twice, no second one. Anyone could help me out?
>>>
>>>Many thanks!
>>>
>>>Martin
>>>
>>>
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