Re: st: FW: nested local

[Oliver Jones <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>]

Or maybe something more easy using describe to get your varlist:

clear
set obs 10

* create 5 variables
forval i = 1/5 {
	gen x`i' = `i'
}

* create the varlist
des x*, varlist

foreach var of varlist `r(varlist)' {
	replace `var' = 9
}
list, tab


Best
Oliver

Am 01.04.2011 14:36, schrieb Francesco Fasani:
> Hi,
>
> My question is the following:
>
> I´m trying to run a loop with a local that contains a local and I don´t manage to make it
> work. I wrote a simplified version below. Basically, it stops at summarize where instaed of
> summarizeng the variable TR_democr_y_y1 (as I would like it to do) it stops and says that
> "TR_democr_y_y is an ambiguous abbreviation (because there are five variable called in that
> way in my dataset: TR_democr_y_y1 ... TR_democr_y_y5.
>
> local variables TR_democr_y_y`j'
>
> foreach var of local variables {
>
> forvalues j=1(1)5 {
>
> display `j'
>
> di "TR_democr_y_y`j'"
>
> su TR_democr_y_y`j'
>
> su `var'
>
> }
>
> }
>
> I know I coudl just rewrite the loop as I did below and it woudl work. But the loop I am
> trying to run is fairly more complex and cannot be written in the version below.
>
> local variables TR_democr_y_y
>
> foreach var of local variables {
>
> forvalues j=1(1)5 {
>
> display `j'
>
> di "TR_democr_y_y`j'"
>
> su TR_democr_y_y`j'
>
> su `var'`j'
>
> }
>
> }
>
> Thanks!
>
> Francesco Fasani
>
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>
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