Re: AW: st: AW: Flexible end of numlist

["Eric A. Booth" <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

Obviously it doesn't.  I didn't read that part of Michael's post  
carefully, and so my suggestion was simply aimed at making the end of  
his numlist flexible ... apologies to Michael for any confusion it  
might have caused.


Best,
Eric


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On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Martin Weiss wrote:

> <>
>
> Well, I wanted to leave open the possibility that he might tweak my  
> code to
> accomodate his stated wish that "the end of the numlist should be  
> half the
> number of the variables involved in that loop." How does your proposal
> address this issue?
>
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Eric A.  
> Booth
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. August 2009 16:45
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: Re: st: AW: Flexible end of numlist
>
> MIchael may not want to pass the -forvalues- loop a value from another
> -local-, in which case using "  `=_N'  "  could do the trick:
>
> *****
>
> forvalues i=2/`=_N'  {
> 	di in red `i'
> }
> *****
>
>
> Best,
>
> Eric
>
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> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
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>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Martin Weiss wrote:
>
> > <>
> >
> > The help advises against this use of the -foreach- loop structure.
> > See -h
> > foreach-:" If you wish to loop over many equally spaced values, do  
> > not
> > code...", instead use -forvalues-. Apart from that, you can have  
> > Stata
> > evaluate an -expression- as the endpoint of a -numlist-, in this
> > particular
> > case half the -local- "r":
> >
> >
> > *************
> > local r 10
> >
> > forv i=1/`=`r'/2'{
> > 	di in red `i'
> > }
> > *************
> >
> >
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Michael
> > Stuetzer
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. August 2009 02:40
> > An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Betreff: st: Flexible end of numlist
> >
> > Dear stata listers,
> >
> > I need to program a loop and want to use the "foreach i of numlist
> > 1/10"
> > begin. However I want to have the end of numlist not to be fixed,
> > but more
> > flexible. To be more precise, the end of the numlist should be half
> > the
> > number of the variables involved in that loop. Does anyone have an
> > idea how
> > to do that?
> >
> > The variables which are involved in that loop  are for instance
> > pat_se1
> > pat_se2 pat_se3 pat_se4 and contain the month (pat_se[odd]) and the
> > years
> > (pat_se[even]) of a specific business starting activity.  I have
> > here a
> > first draft of that loop
> >
> >
> > foreach i of numlist 1/2 {
> > local j=`i'*2
> > local k=`j'-1
> > local t=round(`i'/2)
> > gen PATENTS_SH`i' = ym(pat_se`j', pat_se`k')
> > format PATENTS_SH`i' %tmn_CY
> > if mod(`i',2)==0 {
> > lab var PATENTS_SH`i' "Patenting, end `t'. spell, real time"
> > }
> > else lab var PATENTS_SH`i' "Patenting, start `t'. spell, real time"
> > }
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> > Michael
> >
> >
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