Re: st: Extracting scalar from a vector

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

If I understand correctly, -x- is a variable that
is constant across each value of -state-. In that
case

 foreach s in 6 8 17 21 {
   keep if state == `s'
   local start=x[1]
   forval i = `start' (1) 16 {
  ....
  }
 }

should do it.

hth,
Jeph


John Pfaff wrote:
> Thanks to those who helped me with my question yesterday. One more quick question after that.
>
> I'm trying to extract a scalar value from a vector and use it in a forval loop. The code I have is this:
>
> foreach s in 6 8 17 21 {
>   keep if state == `s'
>   forval i = XXX (1) 16 { 
>  ....
>  } 
> }
>
> It's the XXX that is the problem. I have a vector x that takes on different values for each state s, and I want the forval loop to run from that value to 16. In other words, x == 14 when s  == 6, x == 10 when s == 8, and so on. But I have a lot of observations per state, so while x is constant for each state it is still a vector. How do I extract its scalar value to insert where the big XXX is in my code? This seems like it should be simple, but I've been thwarted for a while now.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> All the best,
>
> John Pfaff
>
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