Re: st: number of equations ml

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

I'm not totally clear on what you want to do.  Do you mean that you want to 
interactively specify the # of equations when calling the program, e.g. you 
want to be able to type something like

myprog y x, neqn(4)

If so, that is pretty easy to do:

program myprog
        version 9
        syntax varlist(default=none), neqn(integer)
...

Then just skip defining neqn in your program (also, refer to it as `neqn' 
rather than `Neqn')

If that is not what you have in mind, perhaps you could clarify?

At 06:12 AM 8/17/2005 -0500, Dan Powers wrote:

> Dear List --
>
> I am trying to automate a bit of code to handle two or more equations. I
> would like the number of equations to be be known when ml is called to set
> the upper index of the loops.
>
> For example, I would like stata to pick up the value of Neqn (from the code
> below) at the time ml is called, instead of having to fix it (to the value
> 4) in advance.
>
> *
> * extract Xb = b*X and Xa = a*x for all Eqns.
> *
>
> local Neqn  = 4
> local Nprob = `Neqn' - 1
>
> forval i = 1 / `Neqn'{
> tempvar xb`i'
> mleval `xb`i' '   = `b', eq(`i')
> }
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