st: foreach problem

["Rajesh Tharyan" <R.Tharyan@exeter.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Now,  what could possibly be wrong with this?

foreach var of varlist  deco pico  {
gen abnor`var'=`var'- N`var'
sort d
by d: egen Aabnor`var'=mean(abnor'var')
}

Stata gives me

. abnor'var' invalid name
  r(198);

I have already created N`var' and I can see that it exists..

Thanks
rajesh

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