Re: st: Forvalues, syntax error

["Neil Shephard" <nshephard@gmail.com>]

On 7/5/07, Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 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.
Well spotted!  I didn't realise that scalars that are undefined are
represented as missing, although thinking about it this is entirely
logical.

No need to try anything that I said, just ensure that you have values
in your i variable.

Neil

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