Re: st: really silly question

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I don't see why you want to write a program to tabulate two variables
when you can just type

. tab x y

But here is one.

program mytab
         version 8.2



On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Scott Talkington <talkings@gmu.edu> wrote:
> The stuff that stumps me in stata is usually something so simple that it's
> impossible to find a help file or a faq that deals with it in simple terms.
>
> I want to write a program that obtains a variable name from keyboard input
> and then executes a series of commands on that variable.  This should be
> pretty simple programming but I can't find a simple description of it.
>
> lets say I want to fill a local variable `x' with one variable name and a
> local variable `y' with another variable name than then execute the command
>
> .tab `x' `y'
>
> and then at the end of the loop it just stops and waits for the keyboard
> input again
>
> Isn't there a simple and obvious way to do this?  Or is it so obvious that
> it's never mentioned?  It's driving me nuts.
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