Re: st: RE: Nested loops?

[Edwin Leuven <e.leuven@uva.nl>]

or rather

local varlist "v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8"
tokenize "`varlist'"
local nv : word count `varlist'
forval i = 1/`nv' {
	forval j = `=`i'+1'/`nv' {
		gen ``i''_``j'' = ``i'' * ``j''
	}
}


> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> adiallo5@worldbank.org
>
> > I would like to generate the following variables:
> >
> > local myvars "v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8....etc..."
> >
> > for var v2 v3 v4....:                          g X_v1 =  X*v1
> > for var v3 v4 v5 v6...:                     g X_v2 =  X*v2
> > for var v4 v5 v6 v7...                      g X_v3 =  X*v3
> > etc.
> >
> > How to do that, if I have a lot of variables involved?
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