b. water
>
> thanks for your reply. i am writing as someone who uses
> stata pragmatically
> first and foremost while learning more stuffs on the side
> (e.g. macros and
> do's, programming is further down the road). so if you feel
> you prefer not
> to further the discussion on this particular topic, i do
> not mind as the
> alternative command line instruction works. it's just your
> macro that did
> not work and am trying to understand why it did not work as
> a learning
> experience for me.
>
> i have changed the data bleen to b1een as in b(one)een
> rather than blee as
> in b(l for lima)een and correspondingly changed all
> ambigious looking l to 1
> (as in changing all l(lima)'s and 1(one)'s to 1(one)'s so
> that there's no
> ambiguity. correspondingly, i have changed the command line
> instruction to:
>
> gen b1ob = cond(b1een == "ing", b1ing, b1am)
>
> i.e. changing all the l(lima)'s to 1(one)'s
>
> this worked.
>
> then i run the macro, again changing all the l(lima)'s and
> 1(one)'s to
> 1(one)'s just so there's no ambiguity, and i got the same
> error message.
>
>
> . drop b1ob
>
> . do "C:\My Documents\untitled.do"
>
> . gen b1ob = .
> (4 missing values generated)
>
> . forval i = 1 / `= _N' {
> 2. replace b1ob = b1`= `b1een'[`i']' in `i'
> 3. }
> b11 not found
> r(111);
>
> end of do-file
> r(111);
>
> so, am still puzzled but if you prefer to leave it at that,
> i'll leave it at
> that. thanks for your input.
Sorry: this hinges on typos whereby what
I sent to Statalist differed from what I used
(which, as said, does work).
My code was, in effect,
clear
input str3 bleen bling blam
"ing" 1 11
"am" 2 12
"ing" 3 13
"ing" 4 14
end
gen blob = .
forval i = 1 / `= _N' {
replace blob = bl`=bleen[`i']' in `i'
}
list
That is, there are no extra quotes around
bleen
Nick
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