st: AW: r(198) error with a foreach loop - problem with '`'

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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This code does work, though:

*************
foreach w in a{
		u "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata11\ado\base/a/`w'uto.dta",
clear
}
*************

I strongly suspect you want the contents of a -local- "d" for the loop
instead of only the letter "d"?


HTH
Martin


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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Jamie Fagg
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. April 2010 13:18
An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Betreff: st: r(198) error with a foreach loop - problem with '`'

Dear Statalist,

Firstly, thanks to Nick Cox and Austin Nichols for their reply to my
recent question about -esttab-. Both answers provide helpful clues to
where I should be going with the problem, but both also raised some
extra questions which I haven't had a chance to work through yet.

On a separate note, Stata is suddenly telling me that ` is not valid
in my foreach loops and I cannot work out where to look to identify
the problem. Code illustrating the issue is below.

Thanks

Jamie

//show that file exists
. use Work\Datasets\Source\dyouth,clear

. des, short

Contains data from Work\Datasets\Source\dyouth.dta
 obs:           773
vars:           101
size:        98,171 (99.9% of memory free)
Sorted by:

//show error with foreach loop
. foreach w in d {
 2.         use Work\Datasets\Source\`w'youth,clear
 3. }
invalid '`'
r(198);

end of do-file

r(198);


Thanks

Jamie

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