foreach gov in any gov1 gov2{
reg sales `gov' totalassets
}
Not sure where the mistake is in yours, probably something with the local
"dvar" being unable to hold the string you are offering it because the `j'
must be evaluated the moment you define "dvar"...
Martin Weiss
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Wang
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: a simple macro problem
Dear all,
I have the following macro, but it doesn't work as I expected:
I have gov1, gov2
and I wrote:
local dvar=" gov`j' totalassets"
local j=1
while `j'<3{
reg sales `dvar'
local j = `j' + 1
}
I expect this will run sales= gov1 totalassets and sales= gov2 totalassets,
but only the first one ran twice, no second one. Anyone could help me out?
Many thanks!
Martin
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