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Re: st: RE: Invalid syntax in a program
From
Eric Booth <[email protected]>
To
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: RE: Invalid syntax in a program
Date
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:26:39 +0000
<>
Works for me too. Try turning on your trace to see where it stops (-set trace on-)
~ Eric
__
Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
>
> <>
>
>
> Does work for me:
>
> ***********
> capture program drop command
> program command, rclass
> version 10.0
> syntax varlist(min=1 max=10)
> foreach v of local varlist {
> di in r "`v'"
> }
> end
>
> drop _all
>
> gen var1=.
> gen var2=.
> command var1 var2
> ***********
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dani Tilley
> Sent: Montag, 12. Juli 2010 21:19
> To: stata
> Subject: st: Invalid syntax in a program
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a program that will do some fairly involved
> manipulations
> on variables. I'll spare you the code, but I've tried it several times and
> it
> works just fine. When I try to write a command that will do those operations
> for
> me, I get invalid syntax.
>
> capture program drop command
> program command, rclass
> version 10.0
> syntax varlist(min=1 max=10)
> foreach v of local varlist {
> <working code goes here>
> }
> end
>
> command var1 var2
> invalid syntax r(198);
>
> I also tried the following manually (not in a program):
>
> local b var1 var2
> foreach v of local b{
> <working code>
> }
>
> and everything went smoothly. So I'm completely baffled as to why this
> wouldn't
>
>
> work in a program with -foreach v of local varlist-.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> DF Tilley
>
>
>
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