Re: st: A loop for each couple of variables (instead of for each variable)

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Fabien Bertho wrote:
> I created a loop in order to estimate various specifications of my model
<snip>
> Now, I would like to run this loop not for two variables but for two locals that comprises two variables. I tried the following code.
<snip>
> But it does not work because during the loop Stata splits my local into two variables&#8230;

You can nest a macro into a macro name, so if your loop creates a
macro `i' that contains 1 in the first iteration, 2 in the second
iteration, etc. than you can refer to a local `var`i'', which will be
read as `var1' in the first iteration, `var2' in the second iteration,
etc.

*-------------- begin example -------------
sysuse auto, clear

local var1 "length weight"
local var2 "gear_ratio turn"

forvalues i = 1/2 {
	reg mpg `var`i''
}
*------------ end example -----------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Another solution is to store these varlists in one local and surround
each sub-varlist with quotes. The entire string than needs to be
surrounded with compound quotes, see -help quotes-.

*-------------- begin example -------------
sysuse auto, clear

#delim ;
local vars
    `"
    "length weight"
    "gear_ratio turn"
    "' ;
#delim cr		

foreach var of local vars {
	reg mpg `var'
}
*------------ end example -----------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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