Re: st: Looping through a range of variables

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Just be sure that this is the order of the variables in the dataset.



Richard Goldstein wrote:
> why not:
>
> foreach var of varlist Var1-New7 {
>
> Rich
>
> Rachel wrote:
>
> > I'd like to loop through a large number of variables that don't have
> > common prefixes or suffixes.   So I'd like to create a loop that goes
> > through all variables in a range (e.g. Var1-New7 where the variables
> > are Var1 Var2 New3 New7.).
> >
> > "Foreach" requires a list, not a range, so that doesn't work.  And
> > ForValues obviously only accepts numbers.
> >
> > Is there a way of doing this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rachel
>
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