At 11:46 AM 5/9/2005 -0500, Sheela Athreya wrote:
Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with the syntax of the following
command?
foreach pc of varlist _all {egen z`pc'=std(`pc')}
I get the error message "program error: code follows on the same line as
open brace
r(198); "
I haven't used this command to standardize a set of variables in a long
time, and have unfortunately maxed out my creative abilities to solve this
problem. I'm using Intercooled Stata 8 for the Macintosh, although I'm
pretty sure the syntax should be universal for this particular command.
Thanks very much.
Stata 8 doesn't like the way you are using {} Try
foreach pc of varlist _all {
egen z`pc'=std(`pc')
}
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