At 15:16 5/04/2004, chris wallace wrote:
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:13, Dev Vencappa wrote:
> local z "1986 1988 1990"
> foreach x of local z{
> gen XPRI3yr`x'=(XPRI`x'-XPRI`x'-2)
> }
You could try
foreach x of local z {
local y = `x'-2
gen XPRI3yr`x'=(XPRI`x'-XPRI`y')
}
which does the same as what Chris himself was searching for, namely
local z "1986 1988 1990"
foreach x of local z{
gen XPRI3yr`x'=(XPRI`x' - XPRI`=`x'-2' )
}
You have two substitutions here:
-the values starting with 1986 for `x' in the inside
- the function `=1986-2' on the outside
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