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st: foreach bug
From
Ada Ma <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: foreach bug
Date
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:15:37 +0100
Hi Statalist,
I have found a bug in the -foreach- command. It wasn't there in
version 10. The problem is that for the last element of the loop, the
actions within the braces are repeated twice. For example when I run
these commands:
clear
foreach area in ayrshire_arran borders dumfgall fife {
append using "$pathout/listsize_200708_`area'"
erase "$pathout/listsize_200708_`area'.dta"
}
save "$pathout/listsize_200708", replace
In the <<listsize_200708.dta>> file I will find two copies of every
line of data that is within <<listsize_200708_fife.dta>>. It would be
great if it can be fixed.
Many thanks.
Ada Ma
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Ada Ma
Research Fellow
Health Economics Research Unit
University of Aberdeen, UK.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 555189
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 550926
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