st: foreach loop over a column

[Kushan Thakkar <kthakk4@gmail.com>]

I have a column name permno in my dataset. It is a numerical column,
and I want to loop over it. This is what I did:

foreach num in permno {
       // do something
}

but this is not working.. what am i doing wrong?

Thanks
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