----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Wolfe" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: st: foreach command
> >Note that you lose any sense of what the dependent variable is. Instead,
> >the log simply lists t-test after t-test. Is there any way we can bring
> >back some marker of the command Stata repeats?
>
> I have always thought Stata ought to have an -echo- option to deal with
> problem. But the best you can do is:
>
> foreach var of varlist a b c {
> di"`var'"
> test `var',by(catvar)
> }
>
> It is kind of a pain in the neck.
>
> Fred Wolfe
One problem with the -for- command is that there was some ambiguity in how
backslashes were interpreted. See "Stata 7: Why do some nested for commands
produce an error?" (http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/nestfor.html)
Scott
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