st: Double -for- loop on one line crashes Stata (resend)

[Kaleb Michaud <kaleb@arthritis-research.org>]

(sent this yesterday, but still haven't received it back so trying one more 
time)

Just an FYI - seems the more I use Stata, the more I'm compressing my 
code.  The following, independent of the actual command used, crashes my 
Stata every time (using Stata 7.0SE in Win2000 - causes Stata to end, no 
error message in results).

Feel free to tell me why so I don't assume such things will work in the 
future, but thought I'd share.

Kaleb...


forvalues i =1/3 {forvalues j=1/3 {replace badcode = badcode + "h`i'_`j'" 
if hrec`i'_`j'chk>0 } }

I do know it works for one loop on one line, and this also works fine in a 
do file written as:

forvalues i =1/3 {
	forvalues j=1/3 {
		replace badcode = badcode + "h`i'_`j'" if hrec`i'_`j'chk>0
	}
}

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