st: replacing task in a loop

[Daniel Marcelino <dmsilv@gmail.com>]

Dear all,
I have a doubt on the looping process that might be simple to solve. I
have a sort of variables with the same scales 1 to 9 that I want to
recode their values to a different scale. However, when I do a loop
for replace these values I got some confusing values in particular for
 the value  1. To deal with this problem I using a not pretty
solution: I'm running  2 loops over the variables as follow.

foreach v of varlist q* pq* {
replace `v' = 0 if `v' ==1
replace `v' = 0.25 if `v' ==2
replace `v' = 0.50 if `v' ==9
replace `v' = 0.75 if `v' ==3
replace `v' = 0.9 if `v' == 4
  }

/* I'm loop again because I cannot transform 4==1 in the same previous
loop. Therefore, I replaced 4==0.9 and now 0.9 == 1


foreach v of varlist q35a* pq26a* {
replace `v' = 1 if `v' ==0.9
   }

My doubt is: there is a way to replace all values without the risk of
the new value be considered again in the loop?


Daniel

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