st: Invalid syntax in a program

[Dani Tilley <tilleydani@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a program that will do some fairly  involved manipulations 
on variables. I'll spare you the code, but  I've tried it several times and it 
works just fine. When I try to write a command that will do those operations for 
me, I get invalid syntax.

capture program drop command
program command, rclass
version  10.0
syntax varlist(min=1 max=10)
foreach v of local varlist {
<working  code goes here>
}
end

command var1 var2
invalid  syntax r(198);

I also tried the following manually (not in a  program):

local b var1 var2
foreach v of local b{
<working  code>
} 

and everything went smoothly. So I'm completely  baffled as to why this wouldn't 


work in a program with -foreach v of  local varlist-.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
DF  Tilley


      
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