RE: st: a loop error of -foreach-

[Grace Jessie <gracejessie@hotmail.com>]

Dear Uli and Maarten,
Thank you for your replies.
I know what is wrong after your explanations.
However, what I want to do is letting stata interpret the elements of the lists just as elements, not variable names.
In fact, I want to do -count- commmand or any other commands if the element is b and do others (such as -su-) otherwise.
How to modify my loop for doing that?
Thank you.
 
Best regards,
Grace

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> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:18:39 +0000
> From: maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk
> Subject: Re: st: a loop error of -foreach-
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> --- On Fri, 17/9/10, Grace Jessie wrote:
> > I encountered a loop problem.
> > The commands I edited are as follwows.
> >
> > foreach j in a b c d {
> > foreach i in e f g {
> > if `j'==b {
> > count
> > }
> > else {
> > su
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Sometimes the error was showed "b ambiguous
> > abbreviation",sometimes the error was "type mismatch".
> > What is wrong?
> > In my mind, -foreach lname in- can be followed by
> > any_list.
>
> the problem is not with -foreach- but with the commands
> inside your loop. Apperently the elements your are looping
> over are not always unique variable names and sometimes
> they are string variable where numeric variables where
> expected or vice versa.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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