Michael Ganz writes:
> I'm running Stata 6.0 and I want to set some global
> macros in one program and then access them, in a
> general way in another.
>
> This is what I want to do:
>
> * In the main program I set the globals
> global skip1=1
> for num 2/10: global skipX=0
> do something
>
>
> * Then in the something.do file I want to repeatedly
> * do some regressions and simulations, but only if
> * a $skip macro is not equal to 1
> local i=1
> while (`i'<=10){
> if $skip`i'~=1{
> reg y x w z, if b==`i'
> * etc, etc
> }
> local i=`i'+1
> }
>
> But when the while-loop expands the $skip`i' it doesn't
> expand it to $skip1, $skip2, etc.
>
> How can I accomplish this in a generalized and hopefully
> not too cumbersome way?
Bracket the skip`i' part to force evaluation:
> if ${skip`i'} ~= 1 {
Tom
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