Fabian,
er, no need for a loop. May
replace number = number + 23
be what you want?
The code for your (unnecessary!) loop as a few mistakes which I am
going to correct anyway.
If you use -while-, you have to increment your counter macro inside the loop:
local i 1
while `i' < 100 {
....
local ++i
}
Else you have an infinite loop, because the initial condition is
always true. -foreach- and -forvalues- are usually much better
choices, and run faster, I believe.
Your condition -while `i' < _N- leaves out the last observation. Next,
number[i] should read number[`i']. _However_, none of this is
necessary! Use -generate- and -replace-.
Eva
2008/9/15 Fabian Brenner <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> 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. }
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Fabian
>
> P.S. Thanks a lot to Neil for the help.
>
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