Re: st: subscripts for loop?

[Jesper Sorensen <sorensen@mit.edu>]

It's not clear what you want to do with the variables, but this loop 
will _display_ them, just make arbitrary changes within the inner 
loops.

forvalues i=1(1)18 {
	if `i'<10  {
		di b0_0`i'
	}
	else {
		di b0_`i'
	}
}




> 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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