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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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--- On Wed, 12/8/09, Dan Waldo wrote:
> I suppose that I could write
>
> .replace ing_1=ing_1/def_7 if mes_1==7
> .replace ing_1=ing_1/def_8 if mes_1==8
> .replace ing_1=ing_1/def_9 if mes_1==9
> .replace ing_1=ing_1/def_10 if mes_1==10
> .replace ing_2=ing_2/def_6 if mes_1==6
> .replace ing_2=ing_2/def_7 if mes_1==7
> .replace ing_2=ing_2/def_8 if mes_1==8
> .replace ing_2=ing_2/def_9 if mes_1==9
> etc
>
> but this seems so bulky and inelegant -- and this is where
> I thought a vector notation would help ...
what about:
forvalues t=1/10 {
forvalues i = 1/2 {
replace in_`i' = ing_`i' / def_`t' if mes_1 == `t'
}
}
hope this helps,
Maarten
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