Tom's sharp eyes and brain caught the quote mark, which
zaps my first paragraph. The rest, I believe, remains valid.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Cox
> I'm not clear, but I guess wildly that you're feeding
> something too big to -foreach-. That's a pretty empty
> statement as it is clear that Stata can't see your {.
>
> In addition, I note that my last advice to you
> on Statalist was
>
> ====================== 24 October 2005
> Also I guess wildly that your data structure is quite
> the wrong way round to do much easily in Stata. Solve
> this problem, and other problems will be just as messy.
> Consider reshaping to panel data structure, and much
> may be a lot easier.
> ======================
>
> and I repeat that advice, which just echoes standard
> Stata wisdom in this territory.
>
> More positively, I would be amazed if you really need
> to write code like this. The wildcard
>
> lcq?y????
>
> may well serve to catch all the first set of variables, and no
> others. So then it might be
>
> foreach x of var lcq?y???? {
> local d : subinstr local x "lc" "dol"
> gen ratio`x'=lc`x'/dol`x'
> }
>
> but it still looks scary to me.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Terra Curtis
>
> > I am trying to run a foreach loop but I keep getting an
> error which is
> > puzzling me. My code is below, with the error:
> >
> > Code:
> > foreach x in "q1y1989" "q2y1989" "q3y1989" "q4y1989"
> > "q1y1990" "q2y1990"
> > "q3y1990" "q4y1990" "q1y1991" "q2y1991" "q3y1991" "q4y1991"
> "q1y1992"
> > "q2y1992" "q3y1992" "q4y1992" "q1y1993" "q2y1993" "q3y1993"
> "q4y1993"
> > "q1y1994" "q2y1994" "q3y1994" "q4y1994" "q1y1995" "q2y1995"
> "q3y1995"
> > "q4y1995" "q1y1996" "q2y1996" "q3y1996" "q4y1996" "q1y1997"
> "q2y1997"
> > "q3y1997" "q4y1997" "q1y1998" "q2y1998" "q3y1999" "q4y1999"
> "q1y2000"
> > "q2y2001" "q3y2001" "q4y2001" "q1y2002" "q2y2002" "q3y2002"
> "q4y2002"
> > "q1y2003" "q2y2003" "q3y2003" "q4y2003" "q1y2004" q2y2004" "q3y2004"
> > "q4y2004" "q1y2005" "q2y2005" {
> > gen ratio`x'=lc`x'/dol`x'
> > }
> >
> > Error:
> > { required
> > r(100);
> >
> > end of do-file
> > r(100);
> >
> > In my do-file the "foreach x in ..." line is all one line.
> > And as you can
> > see I have included the "{". Can anyone spot the error?
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