Hello.
I was wondering if the C++ type of assignment ( a= b = c ) works in
stata. I don't think so after reading your email / testing it out in
stata, but thank you for your comments.
Ashim.
On 9/11/08, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ashim Kapoor wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> >
> > is there a command by which I can do gen v1=v2=v3=0 in stata?
> >
> > A modification which may work ?
> >
> >
> Not as far as I'm aware, its invalid syntax.
>
> What is it that you are trying to achieve? If its simply to generate three
> variables which are all zero then its simply...
>
> gen v1 = 0
> gen v2 = 0
> gen v3 = 0
>
>
> or
>
> forval x = 1/3{
> gen v`x' = 0
> }
>
> Its not much more typing for either of these, but if you want to generate
> more than three variables the later is naturally extensible.
>
> What you will find is that you can do something like....
>
> gen v1 = v2 == v3
>
> ..which on the face of it may appear similar to what you originally wrote,
> but in actual fact generates v1 as a binary variable taking values of 0 and
> 1. If the values of v2 and v3 are equal then the test for equality is
> "True" or 1, if they are not equal then the test for equality is "False" or
> 0.
>
> Neil
>
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