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st: issue with forvalues/foreach
From
"Rubil Ivica" <[email protected]>
To
<[email protected]>
Subject
st: issue with forvalues/foreach
Date
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:21:18 +0100
Dear Statalisters:
When I to run the following (two artificial examples just to illustrate
the issue)
forvalues i = 1(1)30 {
use "F:\project\data\dataset_`i'.dta", clear
compress var1 var2
save "F:\project\data\dataset_`i'.dta", replace
clear
}
or for instance
foreach country in croatia albania {
use "F:\project\data\dataset_`i'.dta", clear
compress var1 var2
save "F:\project\data\dataset:`i'.dta", replace
clear
}
Stata returns
file F:\project\data`i'.dta not found
It seems strange to me that Stata "forgets" the exactly specified path:
"F:\project\data\dataset_`i'.dta" in the first example
and
"F:\project\data\dataset_`i'.dta" in the second example.
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Ivica Rubil
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