RE: st: RE: AW: RE: RE: variable labels and reshape--reinserting en masse

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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" I'll do my best to wean myself off of it, but it will take some time!"



Stata proudly maintains backward compatibility: Under -version- control, you
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HTH
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Hewan Belay
Sent: Montag, 19. April 2010 18:48
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: RE: AW: RE: RE: variable labels and reshape--reinserting en
masse

Dear Martin,

Excellent, your fix of my command worked. Two main lessons learned: I placed
two `' brackets next to each other instead of nesting them, i.e. I did
`myvarlab_'`y' instead of doing `myvarlab_`y''. Second, I shouldn't have
used -for any- and instead should have used -foreach ... in-. In fact, I
didn't know that -for- was dead (thanks Nick for bringing me 7 years into
the present!) -for any- has been my workhorse since I started using stata.
I'll do my best to wean myself off of it, but it will take some time!

Thanks all,
Hewan 

--- On Mon, 4/19/10, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
> Subject: st: RE: AW: RE: RE: variable labels and reshape--reinserting en
masse
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 3:20 PM
> I guess that is never going to
> happen. 
> 
> I don't know if you were using Stata around 2000, but no
> end of messes
> followed people's misunderstanding of how local macros
> worked with
> -for-. 
> 
> One-line loops and macros really don't mix in the way that
> many users
> would want because local macros are necessarily interpreted
> before
> execution. My FAQ explains in more detail: 
> 
> Stata 7: Why do I get puzzling results with the for command
> and local or
> global macros?
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/macros.html
> 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> 
> 
> Stefan.Gawrich@hlpug.hessen.de
> 
> I personal think that the idea of one-liner-loops including
> parallel
> lists is still a good one. 
> A successor that overcomes some of the limitations
> discussed be???e and
> uses locals instead of capital letters
> would be a nice addition to the Stata toolbox.
> 
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