st: RE: RE: minimum of "all other variables"

[Steve Vaisey <vaisey@unc.edu>]

Nick,

I knew it would be embarassingly easy. But at least its easy enough that 
I actually learned something this time! This gives me a couple new 
programming tools to mess around with. Thanks!

(And thanks to Svend for the early ideas. That also gives me some ideas 
for other new tricks.)

Steve


> But this is faster, as it reduces the interpretive overhead of 
> ploughing through -egen- repetitively. unab myvars : price-foreign qui 
> foreach v of local myvars { local others : list myvars - v tokenize 
> `others' gen max_`v' = `1' local others : list others - 1 foreach w of 
> local others { replace max_`v' = max(max_`v', `w') } } Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

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