--- Hendri Adriaens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have to do the same tasks for a lot of columns. I want to create a
> for loop for that. But then I need to be able to save the column
> names in a string vector and do a loop over that. But I can't find a
> way to make a string vector.
-foreach- allows you to loop over a varlist. varlists allow many
shortcuts for specifying a large number of variables. see -help
foreach- and -help varlist-.
If you wanted to store the variable names, you typically would not do
that in a vector but in a local. However, unless you are writing a
general use program, you would typically not need to do that.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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