Re: st: foreach and globals and {.}

["Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>]

Thanks Michael,

I guess that’s a feasible workaround.

To all the other postings: I need the braces, since otherwise Stata 
thinks the global is $out_ , which it does not find to be defined, since 
the global reads $out_`year’, i.e. ${out_`year’}.

It would be nice if either the loops or the macros or better both would 
allow for different braces, i.e. “(“, “[“.

Best wishes
Hans

Michael Blasnik schrieb:


> 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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