> -----Original Message-----
> From: Radu Ban [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:16 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: how to input a numlist into a matrix
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> For a program, I want to input a numerical list into a matrix.
> I want to store the list in a local so that I can modify it
> easily. Namely,
> I'm looking at something like:
>
> local nlist "10(5)90 91(1)99 99.1(0.1)99.9 99.91(0.01)99.99"
>
> but then, if I use:
>
> tokenize "`nlist'"
>
> and try to see if i'm doing the right thing by:
>
> di `1'
>
> i get an invalid syntax error.
> Furthermore, I'm not sure how to get the size of the numlist
> so that I can
> initialize my matrix with:
>
> matrix A = J(1, size_of_numlist, 0)
>
> Can anyone give me some suggestions?
>
> Thank you,
> Radu Ban
First, assign then numlist:
local nlist "10(5)90 91(1)99 99.1(0.1)99.9 99.91(0.01)99.99"
Then, expand it and put it back in the local nlist
numlist "`nlist'"
local nlist `r(numlist)'
Then, find out the number of elements and create the matrix
local nel : words of `nlist'
matrix A = J(1,`nel',0)
And put the elements in:
forval i=1/`nel' {
local el : word `i' of `nlist'
mat A[1,`i']=`el'
}
Even easier, though, is not to create A first, just do:
numlist "`nlist'"
local nlist `r(numlist)'
foreach el of local nlist {
matrix A = nullmat(A),`el'
}
Nick Winter
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