st: AW: RE: AW: forvalues i = 0(.05).15

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

Oh. Duh. You are right. I will follow Nick's advice and keep my forval  
loops integers whenever possible.

-Dave


> This behavior is intentional, though: The step size for this  
> particular
> syntax is the difference between the first and the second argument,  
> i.e.
> 31.6-31.3=0.3, so it cannot hit the 38 exactly and stops short of  
> it. To get
> an exact hit, increase the upper bound to 38.2...
>
>
> *************
> forval x = 31.3 31.6 : 38.2 {
>                 di `x'
>           }
> *************
>
>
> HTH
> Martin


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