Hans J. Baumgartner wrote:
> Dear statalist,
>
> has anybody an idea how to solve the following problem?
>
>
> foreach x in ${out_`year’} {
> do something
> }
>
> That is: I have several globals and I need the braces to tell Stata that
> the local `year’ actually belongs to the global name.
>
> Now I would like to run a loop over all elements in the global
> ${out_`year’}.
>
> But the foreach command gets puzzled with the braces around the global,
> since it thinks that this means to start the loop. And this returns an
> error that a code follows on the same line as open braces.
I don't understand why you need the braces in ${out_`year'}. If $out_`year'
is a string, consisting out of several elements,
foreach x in $out_`year' {
do something
}
would be fine. If $out_`year' refers to a single element, which changes
according to `year' within a loop, I cannot see why you start a loop at all.
(I must admit that I have never seen something like ${out_`year'}, and I was
kind of surprised that
. global x "test"
. di "${x}"
test
works. Can anybody tell me what that means?)
uli
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