Dear Maarten, Eva,
thanks a lot for your comments. I should have added that actually I
have a -tokenize- in there, otherwise my loop would not work. So in
the original I have
***
local nr=wordcount("`regressors'")
tokenize `regressors'
foreach k of numlist 1(1)`nr' {
...
local regrs_no``k'' = subinword("`regressors'","``k''","",.)
...
}
***
Regarding your suggestion, Maarten: I think I understand it, but it is
doing exactly the opposite of what I want: it is keeping regressor
``k'', not eliminating it, as I try to do in the code above. Thanks in
any case for your other suggestion.
Eva: thanks for your suggestion to use the constraint option. I will
try that, that sounds promising.
Davide
2009/3/16 Maarten buis <[email protected]>:
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> --- On Mon, 16/3/09, Davide Cantoni <[email protected]> wrote:
>> the problem in my file is not the line containing
>>
>> `command' `depvar' `regressors' `if'
>> [`weight' `exp'] , `options'
>>
>> But rather two other lines:
>>
>> ***
>> local regressors=trim("`regressors'")
>> ***
>>
>> and
>>
>> ***
>> local nr=wordcount("`regressors'")
>> foreach k of numlist 1(1)`nr' {
>> ...
>> local regrs_no``k'' =
>> subinword("`regressors'","``k''","",.)
>> ...
>> }
>> ***
>>
>> But these two lines seem to be the stumbling stone.
>
> The first you can solve by replacing it with
>
> local regressors : list retokenize regressors
>
> or
>
> unab regressors : `regressors'
>
> The latter also unabreviates the names of your regressors.
>
> The second you can solve by replacing it with
>
> local nr : word count `regressors'
> tokenize `regressors'
> forvalues k = 1/`nr' {
> local regrs_no`k' = "``k''"
> }
>
> -tokenize- breaks the string contained in the local
> `regressors' up in bits and puts them in the locals
> `1', `2', `3', etc. Within the -forvalues- loop the
> local `k' will sequentially contain the numbers 1,
> 2, 3, etc. So, if the first variable is called x,
> then in the first itteration of this loop the line
> -local regrs_no`k' = "``k''"- will read:
>
> local regrs_no1 = "`1'"
>
> This still contains a local macro, so Stata reads
> again, and sees:
>
> local regrs_no1 = "x"
>
> That is why on the left side you only need `k'
> and on the right side you need ``k''. You also
> need the double quotes (" ") to make sure that
> Stata knows that you want the variables name
> and not the value of the first observation on
> the variable x.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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