Re: st: RE: Foreach loop for subsequent variables

[Dmitriy Glumov <glumovdm@gmail.com>]

Daniel, Nick, and Matthew,

Thank you for providing solutions, I have tried all three and they
worked beautifully, saving a lot of time. Moreover, all of these can
serve as helpful templates for the future, when I (and other users)
come across a similar problem. Again, thank you.

Dmitriy

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM, daniel klein
<klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> thanks for sharing this clever usage of -tokenize-. This might save
> some typing in similar situations.
>
> Here is another way, that might be faster, given the repeated useage
> of -preserve- and -restore- in the codes given by Matt and Nick.
>
> unab varlist : *
> tokenize `varlist'
>
> forv j = 1(2)897 {
>        use ``j'' ``= `j' + 1'' using <filename>
>        save `j'2
> }
>
> Best
> Daniel
>
> --
> Matthew's code should work. This is an alternative:
>
> unab varlist : *
> tokenize `varlist'
> forvalues i = 1(2)897 {
>        preserve
>        local j = `i' + 1
>        keep ``i'' ``j''
>        save `i'2
>        restore
> }
>
> But there is no important reason to use this code rather than Matthew's.
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