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Re: st: executing a command based on the prefix of variables


From   Philipp Rehm <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: executing a command based on the prefix of variables
Date   Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:00:08 +0200

I am not sure whether I understand exactly what you want to do, but this may help.

1) You could loop over variable lists, along the following lines:

foreach first of varlist telephone* clock* cltv* bicycle* {
tabstat `first', s(mean n max min med) c(s)
}


2) If the order matters, you could write a more complicated loop, maybe like this:

foreach first of varlist telephone clock cltv bicycle {
foreach second in no sh shno {
tabstat `first', s(mean n max min med) c(s)
capture tabstat `first'`second', s(mean n max min med) c(s)
}
}

(The capture is necessary because not all variables are included with the same suffixes).

I don't know what you are trying to achieve with this, but there may be more straightforward ways to do this. -collapse- and -reshape- may be useful for you (again, depending on what you want to do).

HTH,
Philipp


Yusuke Taishi wrote:

I have a data set that contains variables like;

telephone
telephoneno
telephonesh
telephoneshno
clock
clockno
cltv
cltvno
bicycle
bicycleno
bicyclesh
bicycleshno

and many more. As you can see, they take the form of ;
"name of item"
"name of item"no; or
["name of item"sh / "name of item"shno, whenever appropriate].

I would like to tell STATA to look at the names of variables and execute;
tabstat `var', s(mean n max min med) c(s)
only for the set of variables that contains the same prefix, and loop over the
next set of variables, and then next, and so on.

I tried to embed ifcmd or subinstr command in the loop but haven't been able
to pull it off. I feel like I'm missing out something very basic.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Yusuke

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