As Kit Baum points out, Stata [not STATA, please] won't treat 0802 as such unless you make it clear that you want a literal, i.e. string, interpretation of 0802.
local j 0802
will suffice but
local j "0802"
is more transparent to the reader.
In your example, that is the only point to watch out for.
If you had started at 0302 and your next was 0702, 1102, etc. the code could have been
local j "0302"
* within loop
local j = `j' + 400
local j : di %04.0f `j'
Nick
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I was wondering how to successfully defining local macros beginning
with 0, since I think probably STATA automatically ignores the 0 in the
beginning of a local's expression.
my data set has following variables:
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T0990802
T0991302
T0991802
T0992302
T0992802
T0993302
T0993802
T0994302
------------
I want to create new variables equal the value of 2006 subtracted by
T0990802, T0991302,... and T0994302.
I tried the following command:
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local j=0802
forvalue i =1/8 {
g age`i'=2006-T099`j'
replace age`i'=2006-T099`j'
local j=`j'+500
}
end
-----------------------------------------
But STATA gives the error information :
" T099802 not found
r(111); "
I guess it's probably because STATA treats "local j=0802" as "local j
=802". How could I make the 0 in 0802 not ignored?
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