st: foreach over local or global macro

["Jennifer S. Earl" <jearl@soc.ucsb.edu>]

Hi folks,

Another foreach question. I am trying to loop over a list of letters a-z 
and print out results for each letter, but my foreach call is not working:

foreach A of global c(alpha) {

	preserve
	drop if letter!=`A'

	* open coder specific log
	log using "`A'_module1_cleaning.log" , append

	* prints out the frequencies for each type of error
	forvalues i = 1(1)9 {
		tab mod1_err00`i' if mod1_err00`i'!="0" , missing
	}

	forvalues i = 10(1)99 {
		tab mod1_err0`i' if mod1_err0`i'!="0" , missing
	}

	restore
	log close
}

I have also tried it with "foreach A of local c(alpha) {" and many other 
iterations. What am I missing here? I searched a lot of pages and I have 
tried a bunch of suggestions but there is obviously something more basic 
that I missing.

Thanks,

Jenn


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