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Re: st: foreach global macro not working with multiple macros
From
Eric Booth <[email protected]>
To
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: foreach global macro not working with multiple macros
Date
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:19:50 +0000
<>
So you could change it to:
*****
> global cash "pocket"
> global check "bank"
> foreach y in $cash $check {
> display "`y'"
> }
*****
to get it to work.
- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
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Office: +979.845.6754
On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Maarten buis wrote:
> --- On Wed, 2/2/11, Nick Mosely wrote:
>> I would like to create a for loop using global macros but
>> Stata continues to return an error message.
>>
>> This code works fine:
>>
>> global cash "pocket"
>> foreach y of global cash {
>> display "`y'"
>> }
>>
>> The following, code on the other hand, does not:
>>
>> global cash "pocket"
>> global check "bank"
>> foreach y of global cash check {
>> display "`y'"
>> }
>
> In -foreach- of local / of global you can specify only
> one name of a local or global macro. You specified two.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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