Re: st: Terminating a loop when a certain value is reached.

[njcoxstata@gmail.com]

As I wrote some while ago, this is a rather surprising way to implement a demographic simulation. It would seem much simpler to program using matrices and vectors using Mata, rather than this way. But that's just a personal view.

I'd suggest trying a very small number of iterations, less than 10, and -list-ing and -display-ing aggressively to see what's what.

Nick

On 1 Apr 2013, at 15:03, Stephen Cranney <scranney@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Apologies for the lack of detail. I forgot to add the `i'  but it
> still isn't working (it's running, it just isn't doing what I want it
> to, which is terminate the loop at a certain point). Below is the
> relevant portion of my code. As you can see, I have a large number so
> that it just keeps running indefinitely (which is why I want to be
> able to make a break point trigger). Once a "birth" is created a
> series of mirror observations is created for the offspring, and its
> generationnum value is one greater than its parent. What I'm trying to
> do is run this until generationnum equals a certain number (decided at
> the beginning of the ado file), but I don't see why the continue,
> break code at the end performs this function.
> 
> forvalues i = 1/999999999999999999999999 {
>        if births[`i'] == 1 {
>        expand 2, gen(newvar`i
>        egen Xnewvar= rowtotal (newvar*)
>        drop if Xnewvar>1
>        drop if Xnewvar== 0 & generationnum!= 1
>        drop Xnewvar
>        replace generationnum=generationnum[`i']+1 if newvar`i'==1
>         if generationnum==2 {
>        continue, break
>          }
> ....
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not much detail here.
>> 
>> One possibility is that you are forgetting that
>> 
>> if generationnum == 2
>> 
>> can only mean
>> 
>> if generationnum[1] == 2
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> 
>> On 1 Apr 2013, at 13:03, Stephen Cranney <scranney@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all, I'm trying to figure out how to break out of a loop once a
>>> variable is changed to a certain value. In each iteration, the value
>>> is modified according to the inputs within the loop. I've tried to use
>>> an "if" command:
>>> 
>>> if generationnum==2 {
>>>       continue, break
>>>       }
>>> 
>>> but it's still not terminating the loop. Does anybody know of a
>>> command to terminate a loop once a specified calculated number is
>>> reached?
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