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Re: st: loop with global marco


From   Nick Bornschein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: loop with global marco
Date   Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:43:52 +0100

Thanks Maarten,

but I created the vars1... just as an example. In reality my global macros are called adapt, market and so on...


Am 19.02.14 13:37, schrieb Maarten Buis:
--- On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Nick Bornschein wrote:
I defined 3 global macros, each of them containing the names of variables:
(... means there are a lot more variables in it)

global var1 "hope truth..."
global var2 "life death..."
global var3 "never loose..."

Now I want to summarize the global macros in blocks with:

foreach x of global var1 var2 var3 {
su `x'
}

But it does not work, it always runs through all variables without creating
blocks.

Here is how I would do this:

*------------------ begin example ------------------
sysuse auto
global var1 foreign rep78
global var2 mpg weight
global var3 trunk length

forvalues i = 1/3 {
     sum ${var`i'}
}
*------------------- end example -------------------
* (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
* http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )


This is not exactly true, I tend to avoid global macros wherever I can:

*------------------ begin example ------------------
sysuse auto
local var1 foreign rep78
local var2 mpg weight
local var3 trunk length

forvalues i = 1/3 {
     sum `var`i''
}
*------------------- end example -------------------
* (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
* http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
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Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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