st: RE: looping over several macros

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Something like this: 

local i = 1 
foreach c of local change { 
	local y : word `i' of `1994'
	local s : word `i' of `1994_shift'
	replace drating06 = drating * `c' if  drating >= `y' & drating < `s' 
	local ++i 
} 

The code could be made shorter at the expense of being made more cryptic. 

There was a discussion within 

SJ-3-2  pr0009  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata:  Problems with lists
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q2/03   SJ 3(2):185--202                                 (no commands)
        discusses ways of working through lists held in macros

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

John Holmes

I want to perform a transformation on the variable 'drating' based on
the values of three local macros as below

gen drating06 = .
replace drating06 = drating * `change' if drating >= `1994' & drating
< `1994_shift'

On the first loop, I want to use the first values in all of the macros
`change', `1994' and `1994_shift', on the second loop I want to use
the second values in all of the macros and so on.  Can somebody tell
me the right code to use so Stata loops on all three macros
simultaneously rather than looping the first, then the second and then
the third.


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