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Re: st: String vector


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: String vector
Date   Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:19:45 +0100 (BST)

--- Hendri Adriaens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have to do the same tasks for a lot of columns. I want to create a
> for loop for that. But then I need to be able to save the column
> names in a string vector and do a loop over that. But I can't find a
> way to make a string vector. 

-foreach- allows you to loop over a varlist. varlists allow many
shortcuts for specifying a large number of variables. see -help
foreach- and -help varlist-. 

If you wanted to store the variable names, you typically would not do
that in a vector but in a local. However, unless you are writing a
general use program, you would typically not need to do that.

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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