Re: st: re: general varlist in programs

[Kyle Hood <kyle.hood@yale.edu>]

This is not the problem.  I essentially unabbreviated the list in my loop 
before passing it to the program, which worked.  I never refer to 
"`varlist'", anyway, simply to the variables in the local macros `1', `2', 
etc.  Also, it's being used for an nl procedure.  Maybe I should have 
mentioned that.  That's probably what the issue is, but it's not a problem 
anymore.

Thanks for all of your help.

Kyle




On Mon, 21 May 2007, Michael Blasnik wrote:


> ...
> Let me add to this - the error is probably arising somewhere in your program 
> when you refer to "`varlist'" and expect it to be fully expanded into a list 
> of variables rather than still being in it's varlist state.   You may want to 
> check out the -unab- command to unabbreviate and expand the varlist and place 
> that tokenized list in a local macro.
>
> Michael Blasnik
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Blasnik" 
> <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: st: re: general varlist in programs...
>
> > You've made a typo or some other error --  the syntax for varlist has 
> > accepted wildcards as far back as I can recall (Stata for DOS anyone?).
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Hood" <kyle.hood@yale.edu>
> > To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 4:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: st: re: general varlist in programs
> >
> >
> >
> > > I guess they must have improved things from v8 to v9, or there is 
> > > something I am doing that is wrong.
> > >
> > > The workaround that I am using is to employ a foreach var of varlist ... 
> > > loop, concatenating the variable names into a local variable.  Maybe it 
> > > would be best for me just use stata 9, though.
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