Re: st: RE: Another looping problem

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

In response to Joel Clovis's question, I might add...

>         drop if Country~="`Country'"
With this being in the loop, after it executes in the second iteration, you 
will have no observations left.  (Unless you -use- your basis set each 
time, but that was not included in that loop.)

Having said that, I would agree with Nick's comment, that there are plenty 
of facilities for handling what you want to do without splitting up your set.

But I might add that I have also run into an enigmatic situation where 
Stata wanted another brace, and I couldn't figure out where it was 
allegedly missing.  My program had worked previously, but this symptom 
began under Stata 8.  I was able to run by setting version back to 6 or 
7.  But I never solved the puzzle as to what was wrong with my program -- 
if the fault was indeed in my program.

-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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