Dear Stefan,
thanks for the explanation!
Really very good!
Best,
Joao Ricardo
2008/8/7, Gawrich Stefan <[email protected]>:
> Looping over parallel lists is indeed a very powerful feature.
> To keep it flexible you'll often use a second extended function (word count)
> with the forval command.
>
> local x "1 2"
> local y "3 4"
> local n : word count `x'
> forvalues i = 1/`n' {
> local x1 : word `i' of `x'
> local y1 : word `i' of `y'
> di `x1'+2*`x1'+`y1'
> }
>
> But in my view the syntax has two drawbacks:
> 1) It needs a lot of lines. So it bloats your do-files expecially when you
> use it with more than two locals.
> (I often use it for batch graph creation where variables, selections, titles
> and settings can make up to ten locals)
> 2) You have to create new local names inside the loop, which makes it
> confusing and error prone
>
> So sometimes I find it convenient to use that good old (not longer
> documented) "for" command again.
>
> for num 1 2 \ num 3 4 : di X+2*X+Y // Yes, you can do it in one line!
>
> or
>
> local x "1 2"
> local y "3 4"
> for num `x' \ num `y' : di X+2*X+Y
>
> But foreach and forvalues are now state of the art, so I don't want to
> advertise "for".
> But I think it could be very helpful to save the user from writing all these
> extended function lines and add this
> parallel lists functionality to "foreach".
>
>
> Best wishes
> Stefan Gawrich
> Dillenburg
> Germany
>
>
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