Re: st: foreach-question

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 05:36 AM 4/21/2006, Johannes Geyer wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
>
> it seems to me that I did not understand the Syntax of "foreach", I 
> typed the code below to produce a panel data set for which I had to 
> rename some variables and added an index(1995,1996,1997,...,2004) as 
> suffix. The loop works perfectly well until it reaches the last 
> variable "kzahl". I do not know why but the last variable is not 
> processed in the loop. Has anyone an idea where I made a mistake?
I simulated your problem via the following:

clear
set obs 100
corr2data netto pbleib pbbil01 pbbil02 pbbil03 phrf famstd stell pnat 
nace psbil hhgr eigen kzahl

local wave = "l m n o p q r s t u"
local vars = "netto pbleib pbbil01 pbbil02 pbbil03 phrf famstd stell 
pnat nace psbil hhgr eigen kzahl"
local y    = 1995

foreach x in `wave' {

        foreach z in `vars' {
                gen `x'`z' = `z'
                rename `x'`z' `z'`y'
        }

        local y = `y' + 1
}

As far as I can tell, it worked fine.  Are you sure that lkzahl, 
mkzahl, etc. exist?


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