You need an evaluation:
local name = country1[`y']
This assumes that no length limits bite.
The longest country name I can think
of, with a little help from
a database, is 30 characters, e.g.
Federated States of Micronesia
Anyone beat that?
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> R.E. De Hoyos
> Sent: 03 August 2004 20:38
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: looping graph and changing title
>
>
> How can I change the title of a graph that it is being
> generated by a loop.
>
> I want to define "titlename" as the string value of another
> variable. My
> data looks like the following
>
> country code var1 var2 year
> France 1 x1 y1 t
> UK 2 x2 y2 t
> US 3 x3 y3 t
> . ...
>
> What I created is a graph for each country using the following loop:
>
> levels cty, local(lev)
> qui foreach y of local lev {
> local name "country1[`y']"
> noi di `name'
> #delimit ;
> tw line var1 year if cty==`y', yaxis(1) clp(solid) || line
> var2 year if
> cty==`y', yaxis(2) clp(dash)
> title("`name'") ytitle("mytitle", axis(1))
> ytitle("mytitle2", axis(2))
> legend(label(1 "label1") label(2 "label2"))
> note("mynotes");
> noi di "Graph cty`y' Saved" ;
> #delimit cr
> }
>
> Although each local macro `name' displays the desired country
> name obtained
> from the variable "country1", the graphs appear with the
> title "country[1]"
> instead of its string (e.g. France).
>
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