st: How to make a for "loop" when the counter is a variabe

[Quang Nguyen <quangn@gmail.com>]

When I run the following code:

for i = 1/`var' {........
                   }

where var is a variable in the data set.

The code doesn't work. Can you suggest a solution?

Many thanks!

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