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st: RE: new local macro from results of loop


From   "Maarten Buis" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: new local macro from results of loop
Date   Wed, 30 May 2007 17:16:11 +0200

foreach v of local lvstk {
    egen `v'nbeg = sum(liv_begnum) if `v', by(houscode qtr)
    egen `v'nend = sum(liv_endnum) if `v', by(houscode qtr)
    local lvstknos "`lvstknos' `v'nbeg `v'nend"
}

Hope this helps,
Maarten

NB notice the absence of the equal sign in the local 
statement, this will protect you against strings that
are too long.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ronnie Babigumira
Sent: woensdag 30 mei 2007 16:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: new local macro from results of loop

Dear list

I define a local macro lvstk below which contains variables I would like to process further. For example

local lvstk "cattle largeanims calves smallrums smallanims"

foreach v of local lvstk {
        egen `v'nbeg = sum(liv_begnum) if `v', by(houscode qtr)
        egen `v'nend = sum(liv_endnum) if `v', by(houscode qtr)
}

how do I automatically put the new variables being generated into a new macro

say

local lvstknos "cattlenbeg cattlenend ....and-all-the-other-stuff-coming-out-of-the-foreach-loop"

Ronnie
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