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st: forvalues and _N


From   "Wallace, John" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: forvalues and _N
Date   Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:45:52 -0700

I have a problem using a forval loop to assign values to a numeric variable
(for brevity, assume that -encode- doesn't work here).  I want to loop
through the entire dataset, addressing each value in turn, so

.forval e = 1/_N

would appear to be the appropriate form.  I get an "invalid syntax" error
when I do so.

.di _N

gives me the expected result for this dataset, 2339.

.forval e = 1/2339

works as expected.
How am I screwing this up?

John Wallace�|�Research Associate�| Test Method Development
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