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Re: st: Forvalues, syntax error
From
"Neil Shephard" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Forvalues, syntax error
Date
Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:42:29 +0100
On 7/5/07, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Gauri Khanna wrote:
> summarize i
> local max1=r(max)
<snip>
> forvalues svy = 1/`max1' {
> THIS IS THE ERROR I GET
> - forvalues svy = 1/`max1' {
> = forvalues svy = 1/. {
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
The problem is that 1/. is not a valid numeric range. The local
macro max1 contains "." because your variable i is always missing,
and therefore r(max) is not returned.
Well spotted! I didn't realise that scalars that are undefined are
represented as missing, although thinking about it this is entirely
logical.
No need to try anything that I said, just ensure that you have values
in your i variable.
Neil
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