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st: RE: Is this peculiar, or is it me?


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Is this peculiar, or is it me?
Date   Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:51:30 -0000

I can reproduce this. 

It looks like a bug, as if Stata is looking 
in (just) the wrong place. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Philip Greenwood
 
> I entered some code into Stata and the output was not as I 
> expected. I've pasted the log below. Note there is no dataset 
> loaded into memory.
 
> . do "oddcode"
> 
> . foreach item in thing1 thing2 {
>   2.     di "item: `item'"
>   3.     local foo "a_great_big_fish"
>   4.     foreach var of varlist _all {
>   5.         di "variable: `var'"
>   6.     }
>   7. }
> item: thing1
> variable: a_great_big_fish
> item: thing2
> variable: a_great_big_fish
> 
> .
> end of do-file
> 
> While it's questionable at best to enter the -foreach var of 
> varlist _all- with no data loaded, I would not have expected 
> the macro `var' to evaluate to the contents of `foo'. Can 
> anyone tell me what is going on here?
 

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