Re: st: a, perhaps, not so really silly question

[Scott Talkington <talkings@gmu.edu>]

On 3/8/2011 2:28 PM, Eric Booth wrote:
> If you don't want every possible combination, but only specified pairs, you can use something like this:
>
> loc vars   DroppedOut drop     RepeatedGrade rgrade     Whatever  otherstuff
> token `"`vars'"'
> while `"`1'"' != "" {
> 	di "`1' and `2'"
> tabxml, dv(`2') ivd(rchurch) options(n) split(mono) osvy save( C:\data\NLSY Children of 79\Deliverables/`1'IN)
> tabxml, dv(`2') ivd(rchaste) options(n) split(mono) osvy save( C:\data\NLSY Children of 79\Deliverables/`1'IIN)
> tabxml, dv(`2') ivd(rchurch) options(per) tf(2) split(mono) percent(row) osvy save( C:\data\NLSY Children of 79\Deliverables/`1'IP)
> tabxml, dv(`2') ivd(rchaste) options(per) tf(2) split(mono) percent(row) osvy save( C:\data\NLSY Children of 79\Deliverables/`1'IIP)
> ......etc......
> 		macro shift 2
> 	}
Thanks, that's pretty much what I wanted.  Thanks to Nick's article I 
even understand (mostly) why it works.  What I have to get used to is 
the somewhat idiosyncratic use of the word "macro" in Stata programming, 
and a bit more about the precise syntax for the "while" command.  I 
could also probably define a few more macros so that it's only necessary 
to have one version of the command line.

--Scott
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