Re: st: nested loops with varying degrees of nesting

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 06:33 PM 10/1/2013, Alfonso S wrote:
> the simplest solution in my mind would be the following:
>
> prog def t1
> syntax , [c1 c2 c3]
>
> if "`c1'" != "" {
>     forvalues d1 = 1/4 {
> - do stuff -
> if "`c2'" != "" {
> forvalues d2 = 1/4 {
> - do stuff -
> if "`c3'" != "" {
> forvalues d3 = 1/4 {
> - do stuff -
> }
> }
> }
> }
>     }
> }
>
> end

Thank you, but that won't exactly do. There should be only one "do 
stuff" section, in the innermost loop.
(And making that "do stuff" code handle the differing degrees of 
nesting is not a problem.)

> I'm not quite sure why you want to define all those local macros.

It was just a way of demonstrating the problem in generic terms.
Thanks
--David

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