st: forvalues problem

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Can anyone see the problem?

I have global macros

mac list
catvar1_totline: 2
catvar2_totline: 9

When I try to use them with the following code I get an error

      forvalues j = 1 /  2 {
         forvalues k = 1 / ${catvar`j'_totline} {
         di "`k'. ${catvar`j'vname`k'"
         }
      }

The error is:

- forvalues k = 1 / ${catvar`j'_totline} {
unrecognized command:  catvar1_totline

Leaving the braces off gives "invalid syntax."

. di ${catvar1_totline}
2


Thanks

Fred






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