Re: st: subscripts for loop?

[Nomoreno <nomorenook@netscape.net>]

Maybe you can try this. First set a local variable by "local i=1", then 
use b0_`i' to refer to each variable. If you set i as a global one by 
"global i=1", then you do use bo_$i to refer to it.

I hope it helps.



k-barrett@northwestern.edu wrote:


> I'm stumped on a programming problem. I need to refer to a sequence of 
> variables b0_01, b0_02, b0_03 . . .  b0_18, where the subscript 
> identifies an individual child of a given
> woman and the first part of the variable refers to some characteristic of
> that child. (The woman is the unit of observation, and for each woman
> there are up to 18 children observed.) My idea was to do a loop with j=1,
> then j = j+1, etc., referring to b0_j. But this won't work. My boyfriend
> suggested doing the j loop and then concatenating to b0_, but I can't
> find anything in stata on how to concatenate a number to a string.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Kenley
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