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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | Re: st: If-command not accurate |
Date | Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:43:49 +0100 |
Your title is misleading. You need if "'var'" == "PF_ret6" {(there doesn't seem to be a single left quotation mark on the device I am using). You are looking for a match on names, not values.
Nick On 7 Aug 2012, at 17:26, "Daniel Brodback" <schmani@gmx.de> wrote:
Dear all,in a foreach-loop, I am trying to "catch" a specific case and therefore I implement this with an if-command.For my varlist, I want certain commands to be executed but when var "PF_ret6" occurs, I need different commands.I implemented this in the following way (Stata SE 11.2): foreach var of varlist PF_dy-PF_ret6 { if `var' == PF_ret6 { ... } else { } }The weird behavior is, that for the first variables everything works as expected. But when the variable prior to PF_ret6 is reached (named PF_lret6), it also enters the if-condition.Is there a way to assure that the if-command only uses PF_ret6 but not
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