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st: Re: about macro's double quotes


From   "G. Dai" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: about macro's double quotes
Date   Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:30:54 -0800

sorry, I was always reminded that
   r5pnhm already defined
   r(110);
the previous is a typo.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:19 AM, G. Dai <[email protected]> wrote:

> dear all,
> I'm a first time  user of macros. As you can see from below, I want to
> generate a  new var r`i'pnhm when x=md.  After execute the do file, it
> runs smoothly for x=md. After that, however, I was always reminded by STATA
> that
>                r5pnhm5y already defined
>                r(110);
> so what's wrong with the following program. BTW,I'm little bit confused by
> the macro
> quotes, can anyone say tips?
> regards,
> Guang
>
>
>
> global set "md mom dad";
> foreach x in $set {;
> forvalues i=5/8{;
> gen r`i'pnhm=. if "`x'"=="md";
> replace r`i'pnhm=int(10*r`i'pnhm5y)/10 if "`x'"=="md";
> ....
> };
>
>
>

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