Philip Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> I entered some code into Stata and the output was not as I expected. I've
> pasted the log below. Note there is no dataset loaded into memory.
>
>
> . do "oddcode"
>
> . foreach item in thing1 thing2 {
> 2. di "item: `item'"
> 3. local foo "a_great_big_fish"
> 4. foreach var of varlist _all {
> 5. di "variable: `var'"
> 6. }
> 7. }
> item: thing1
> variable: a_great_big_fish
> item: thing2
> variable: a_great_big_fish
>
> .
> end of do-file
>
> While it's questionable at best to enter the -foreach var of varlist _all-
> with no data loaded, I would not have expected the macro `var' to evaluate to
> the contents of `foo'. Can anyone tell me what is going on here?
We have been able to reproduce this here, too. We will have this fixed in the
next executable update.
--Shannon Driver
[email protected]
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