That did the trick!
Many, many thanks to all of you for your help!
Andrea
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Williams" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: st: Problems with program
> At 09:47 AM 8/19/2005 +0100, Andrea Molinari wrote:
> >Many thanks for all your replies!
> >Nick, you're totally right. The main problem is that I can't put the
program
> >inside the loop because the word -end- stops the loop.
> >I'm sorry for my ignorance, but can I please ask what did you mean by
"pass
> >`var' to -regse- in an option"? I thought this meant to define the local
in
> >the program, but that didn't work either.
> >Many thanks again and again!
> >Andrea
>
> Andrea, you are already passing options to your program. Here are the
> first few lines:
>
> capture program drop regse
> program regse
> local dep `1'
> local xvar "`2'"
> local cons `3'
>
> Now add this line:
>
> local var `4'
>
>
> Later on, when you call regse, you have this line:
>
> regse uset`var'PRE "$xvarsetPRE" conssePRE
>
>
> Change that to
>
> regse uset`var'PRE "$xvarsetPRE" conssePRE `var'
>
> I haven't actually tried it, but I think this, or something like this,
will
> work.
>
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