Re: st: foreach and globals and {.}

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

woops, I forgot about that requirement.  You can also put the global into a 
local before using it (which may be helpful in other situations):

local outyear ${out_`year'}
foreach x in `outyear' {
...

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Harrison" <david.harrison@icnarc.org>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: st: foreach and globals and {.}



> Braces are also necessary when the global name contains a local macro...
>
> . local loc a
>
> . global ga hello world
>
> . di "$ga"
> hello world
>
> . di "$g`loc'"
> a
>
> . di "${g`loc'}"
> hello world
>
> This was the case in the posted query... as I said in my previous response 
> (which doesn't seem to have arrived yet more than an hour since I sent it) 
> the -foreach x of global g- construct solves the problem.
>
> D
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