Absolutely no loop is needed here.
. replace number = number + 23
Nick
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P.S. Why didn't it work? One reason is that you wrote
replace number[i] =
which is illegal, quite apart from other problems.
P.P.S. Stata terminology is observations, not rows.
Fabian Brenner
how can I tell Stata to add 23 in each row of a variable in the dataset?
I do not know what I am doing wrong because it does not work like this:
local i=1
while `i'<_N {
2. replace number[i]= number[`i'] + 23
3. }
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