st: Re: WHILE command

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Don't bother with the while command. Use forvalues or foreach for  
your loops and life will be much simpler.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Mar 17, 2008, at 02:33 , statalist-digest wrote:


> I have a few questions about the WHILE command,
> 1. When does it evaluate the WHILE condition? If it becomes false does
> it immediately exit the WHILE loop?
> 2. Can both sides of the WHILE condition be local variables that may
> be updated in the WHILE statement ?  WHILE 'i' < 'j' {  ..... local i
> = 'i' + 'j' .... local j = 'j' + 1.....  }
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