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Re: st: RE: about macro's double quotes
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"G. Dai" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: about macro's double quotes
Date
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:48:19 -0800
thanks for the reference, Martin.
yeah, the outer loop is redundant. But I do want to know why that "if"
doesn't work. it is wired to a beginner...
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> If you want to read up on -macro-s, check out manual [U], section 18.3.
>
> What do you want to achieve with your outer loop? You let it cycle through
> three elements of a -global-. The -gen- and -replace- statements inside the
> second loop are supposed to be executed only for the first element of the
> -global-. Would it not be much easier to drag the -gen-/-replace- statement
> out of the inner loop, and ditch the outer one? Maybe this is taken out of
> context, but from what is visible in your post, the outer loop is
> redundant...
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of G. Dai
> Sent: Dienstag, 9. März 2010 20:20
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: about macro's double quotes
>
> dear all,
> I'm a first time user of macros. As you can see from below, I want to
> generate a new var r`i'pnhm when x=md. After execute the do file, it
> runs smoothly for x=md. After that, however, I was always reminded by STATA
> that
> r5pnhm5y already defined
> r(110);
> so what's wrong with the following program. BTW,I'm little bit confused by
> the macro
> quotes, can anyone say tips?
> regards,
> Guang
>
>
>
> global set "md mom dad";
> foreach x in $set {;
> forvalues i=5/8{;
> gen r`i'pnhm=. if "`x'"=="md";
> replace r`i'pnhm=int(10*r`i'pnhm5y)/10 if "`x'"=="md";
> ....
> };
>
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