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st: Looping over values of a string variable to create twoways


From   Dorothy Bridges <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Looping over values of a string variable to create twoways
Date   Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:52:24 -0400

Hi everyone:  I would like to write a foreach loop that will produce a
separate twoway graph for each value of my string variable msa_name.

When I enter:

levels msa_name, local(MSA)
foreach i of local MSA {
#delimit;
twoway (line yvar1 xvar if msa_name==`i' & state1==1, lpattern(dash))
(line yvar2 xvar if msa_name==`i' & state1==1, color(navy) yaxis(2)),
title("`i'",color(black) placement(west) justification(left))
legend(off)
saving(`i', replace);
};

Stata tells me, "end of do file," but does nothing.

In an attempt to isolate the problem, I tried the simpler:

foreach i of local MSA {
twoway line yvar1 xvar if msa_name==`i' & state1==1 & county1==1, lpattern(dash)
}

which returns, "Allentown not found."  The first value of msa_name is
"Allentown-Easton."

I seached the archives and did find a similar query, but I still could
not solve my problem.

Thanks,
Dorothy
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