Re: st: Re: WHILE command

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

How does one do this in cases where one cannot calculate, in advance, 
the number of repetitions needed, or the list of items to be acted upon?

--Nick Winter

Kit Baum wrote:

> Don't bother with the while command. Use forvalues or foreach for your 
> loops and life will be much simpler.
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
>
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 02:33 , statalist-digest wrote:
>
>
> > I have a few questions about the WHILE command,
> > 1. When does it evaluate the WHILE condition? If it becomes false does
> > it immediately exit the WHILE loop?
> > 2. Can both sides of the WHILE condition be local variables that may
> > be updated in the WHILE statement ?  WHILE 'i' < 'j' {  ..... local i
> > = 'i' + 'j' .... local j = 'j' + 1.....  }
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