To expand on this, Amadou, the key points are that
1. What your loop does is dependent only on the last item processed,
as each result overwrites the previous one.
2. So the loop is not needed to produce the same result.
3. If you want something else, as I guess, you have to tell us what that is.
Nick
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
> Got it.
>
>
> On 2/14/2013 1:27 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
>>
>> That line of code which I wrote earlier is what Amadou's earlier
>> example boils down to.
>>
>> It is not a suggestion for what Amadou should use, and cannot be, because
>>
>> 1. Amadou has implied that he does not want that result.
>>
>> 2. I don't know what Amadou really wants to do. He hasn't described
>> the problem he wants to solve.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/14/2013 4:55 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Should be
>>>>
>>>> local d = cond("a" == "c", "%", "Value")
>>>>
>>>
>>> Note the condition is never true. Maybe you mean:
>>>
>>> local d = cond("`k'"=="a", "%","Value")
>>>
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