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Re: st: Forvalues, syntax error


From   Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Forvalues, syntax error
Date   Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:28:13 -0500

On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Gauri Khanna wrote:
summarize i
local max1=r(max)
<snip>

forvalues svy = 1/`max1' {
THIS IS THE ERROR I GET
- forvalues svy = 1/`max1' {
= forvalues svy = 1/. {
invalid syntax
r(198);

The problem is that 1/. is not a valid numeric range. The local macro max1 contains "." because your variable i is always missing, and therefore r(max) is not returned.


-- Phil

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