Re: st: foreach global macro not working with multiple macros

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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I also find it useful to combine the global macros before the loop (esp. if there's repetition in the elements), e.g.

**************!
global cash "pocket asdf bank"
global check "bank"
**
global all: list global(cash) | global(check)
di `"${all}"'
**
foreach y of global all {
display "`y'"
}
**************!
- Eric

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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu

On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Eric Booth wrote:

> <>
> 
> So you could change it to:
> 
> *****
>> global cash "pocket"
>> global check "bank"
>> foreach y in $cash $check {
>> display "`y'"
>> }
> *****
> 
> to get it to work.
> 
> - Eric
> 
> __
> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
> Office: +979.845.6754
> 
> 
> On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Maarten buis wrote:
> 
>> --- On Wed, 2/2/11, Nick Mosely wrote:
>>> I would like to create a for loop using global macros but
>>> Stata continues to return an error message. 
>>> 
>>> This code works fine:
>>> 
>>> global cash "pocket"
>>> foreach y of global cash {
>>> display "`y'"
>>> }
>>> 
>>> The following, code on the other hand, does not:
>>> 
>>> global cash "pocket"
>>> global check "bank"
>>> foreach y of global cash check {
>>> display "`y'"
>>> }
>> 
>> In -foreach- of local / of global you can specify only
>> one name of a local or global macro. You specified two.
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> Maarten 
>> 
>> --------------------------
>> Maarten L. Buis
>> Institut fuer Soziologie
>> Universitaet Tuebingen
>> Wilhelmstrasse 36
>> 72074 Tuebingen
>> Germany
>> 
>> http://www.maartenbuis.nl


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