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Re: st: Syntax forvalues in Stata 11 SE
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Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Syntax forvalues in Stata 11 SE
Date
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:58:52 +0000
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Gauri Khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a new user to the Stata 11.1 SE
>
> I have run into syntax problems with the - forvalues- command while creating a loop.
>
> My syntax which comes from Stata 9 is the following:
>
> forvalues svy = 1/`max1' {
> use "'allsvys'", clear
> keep if i==`svy'
> }
>
> and I get the following error :
>
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
What is the value of `max1' and how are you setting it prior to your loop?
You can use -set trace on- to look at how your -forval- line is
actually being interpreted.
>
> Subsequently, i would also like to run the following syntax (shortened for convenience)
>
> foreach x of local names {
> if "`x'"=="lgsmkc" {
> display "`x'"
> gen row`j'=lgcigc
> local j=`j'+1
> }
> }
>
> Can anyone help?
What are you trying to achieve here, its not clear to me?
It looks like you'll create variables row1 to row[n] that will all be
identical to the variable 'lgcigc' which doesn't seem like a useful
thing to do.
Neil
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