RE: st: problem creating and doing a foreach on a local of allnumeric variables in a dataset

["Jennifer S. Earl" <jearl@soc.ucsb.edu>]

Thanks Maarten and Nick-- it runs now! I would have never figured out that 
was the problem, especially since the "display `num_vars'" did display the 
full list of variables I wanted even while I got the errors in the foreach 
loop.

Just so I understand, though, I'll ask a follow-up:
Let's say I wanted to name the initial list of numeric variables something 
different than the initial list of string variables (hence me trying to put 
them in the local macros num_list and string_list) so I could use these 
lists at different points later in the program and the lists would not be 
affected by subsequently created variables (as they would if I just remade 
the lists each time).

Right now, I could not do this because both the numeric and string lists 
both appear to be called `r(varlist)' ; the contents just got replaced by 
running "ds , has(type numeric)" or "ds , has(type string)" right before 
the foreach loop.

How could I save off those initial lists and then later successfully 
operate on them in a foreach loop?

Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

Cheers,

Jenn

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Jennifer Earl
Director, Center for Information Technology and Society
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-9430

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