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st: Fwd: foreach loop for generating missing variables
From
andreas chai <[email protected]>
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st: Fwd: foreach loop for generating missing variables
Date
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:16:01 +1000
Dear Stata experts : PLease help!
I have a series of variables "x100 ... x894" in which many of these
variables are missing. e.g. x240 does not exist
I would like to create these missing variables which contain zero for all
observations.
how do i create these missing variables ?
i have tried writing a loop
!foreach x of newlist x100- x894{
!gen `x=92 =3D0
!}
but keep getting an error as some these variables already exist.
thank you in advance,
Andreas
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