Re: st: RE: excluding variables from varlist

["David Elliott" <dcelliott@gmail.com>]

If there was a large number of variables one could also use an: if
inlist("`var'","a","b"...up to 10 varnames) and this could be repeated
with an or.

I am assuming one would use this to cycle through all categorical
variables excluding the measure variables or vice versa.

DCE

On 5/24/06, Alex Ogan <aogan@arrowstreetcapital.com> wrote:
> There's likely a better way, but I often do this:
>
> foreach each var of varlist _all {
>         if "`var'" == "a" continue
>         if "`var'" == "b" continue
>
>         <whatever>
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:59 PM
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> Subject: st: excluding variables from varlist
>
> Hi,
>
> using the foreach command I would like to exclude certain variables,
> e.g:
> "foreach var of varlist _all [/excluding a, b, c/]".
>
> Is that possible and if so how?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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