RE: st: read values of tempvar instead of variable label

[Erik van Ingen <ejvani@hotmail.com>]

Dear Nick & Daniel, Thanks a lot for your comments! Indeed, the use of tempvar was unnecessary. Daniel: the levelsof / foreach solution worked (with a few changes)I hope this message doesn't get distorted...
Erik

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> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 15:28:49 +0200
> Subject: Re: st: read values of tempvar instead of variable label
> From: klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> Erik,
>
> I do not fully understand what you are trying to do here, but chances
> are you do not need temporary variables. I will explain what your code
> does, maybe this helps. Otherwise rephrase your question to clearify
> what your data loojks like and what you want it to look like.
>
> gen newvar=.
> // creates a new variable newvar with missing values for all cases
>
> tempvar tmpnr
> gen `tmpnr'= var1
> // creates a temporary variable, named __000000 that is a copy of var1
> // note that this variable does not have a variable or value label attached
>
> replace newvar=1 if othervar`tmpnr'==1
> // this does not work, because there is no variable named
> othervar__000000 in your dataset
> // I do not see what you are trying to do here, but others may have an idea
>
> Do you want something like
>
> g newvar = .
> qui levelsof var1 ,l(lvls)
> foreach l of loc lvls {
> qui replace newvar = `x' if (othervar`x' == 1)
> }
>
> Best
> Daniel
>
> --
> Dear all, Sorry to ask such a newbie question, but I can't find the
> answer elsewhere. Can anyone please tell me how to get the code below
> to work?
> I am trying to use tempvar in order to use the value of a variable to
> address another variable.
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