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Re: st: Using a for loop to generate a number list
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Using a for loop to generate a number list
Date
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:03:54 +0000
Note that -forvalues- is better than -foreach- here too (as in Elan
Cohen's answer).
Nick
[email protected]
On 13 January 2014 16:00, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
>
> No need to do this at all. -egen-'s -cut()- function will take a numlist.
>
> But for future reference note
>
> 1.
>
> numlist "0/10"
> di r(numlist)
>
> 2.
>
> If you want to this via a loop, you would need -foreach ... of ...-
>
> foreach v of num 0/10 {
> local temp `temp' `v'
> }
>
> except that that is a poor method compared with using -numlist-.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 13 January 2014 15:43, Wen Jun Jie
>
>> I have a small question, considering the following code:
>>
>> local temp = "0 "
>>
>> foreach i in 1/10 {
>> local temp = `temp' + `i' + " "
>> }
>>
>> What I hope to achieve is a number list 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and I
>> could use that in the cut function (e.g. cut(`temp')), however a few
>> things happened:
>>
>> - I cannot cast the i to a string, I already tried using string(`i'),
>> however this also doesn't work. Could someone demonstrate how one
>> should do this and what I am doing wrong?
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