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Re: st: expanding numlist


From   "Austin Nichols" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: expanding numlist
Date   Mon, 2 Jul 2007 11:01:03 -0400

Radu Ban <[email protected]>:
One way forward is to insert an equals sign to force evaluation rather
than assignment, and use no quotes to trip up -foreach-.  There is
almost certainly a better way of doing this task, though--if you post
a description of the larger problem, you may get more guidance. Note
also you do not need -count-.

input groupid str20 list
1          "3 8 9 10"
2         "5/9 11 23/27"
3        " 6 7/10"
end
local end = _N
forvalues i=1/`end' {
 local numbers=list[`i']
 foreach n of numlist `numbers' {
  di `n' /*just to test if this works*/
 }
}

You can also do the evaluation on the fly:

clear
input groupid str20 list
1          "3 8 9 10"
2         "5/9 11 23/27"
3        " 6 7/10"
end
forvalues i=1/`=_N' {
 foreach n of numlist `=list[`i']' {
  di `n'
 }
}


On 7/2/07, Radu Ban <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear listers,

I have two variables: groupid and list. "groupid" identifies the group
and "list" is numeric list of members. For example:

groupid list
1          3 8 9 10
2         5/9 11 23/27
3         6 7/10
...       ...

Now "list" is always a valid numlist (because I entered it as such). I
want to get this data into a long format (i.e. expand "list" for each
"groupid"). But I'm having troubles from the start, I can't even get
Stata to read in each observation of "list" as a numlist. For example
I tried the following piece of code.

count
local end = r(N)
forvalues i=1/`end' {
 local numbers "list[`i']"
 foreach n of numlist `numbers' {
  di `n' /*just to test if this works*/
 }
}

this gives me an error: invalid numlist

Setting the trace on, I see that
foreach n of numlist `numbers' { is processed as
foreach n of numlist list[1] { which is clearly an invalid -numlist-

However, when I try this:

count
local end = r(N)
forvalues i=1/`end' {
 local numbers "list[`i']"
 di `numbers'
}

I get a list of all the observations in "list", so `numbers' is being
read as the content of list[`i']. So I am puzzled why `numbers' cannot
be read as a -numlist-

So my direct question is how to read in "list" as numeric list. I
think once I do this I can manage to do my reshape.

Thanks,
Radu
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