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st: RE: Fwd: foreach loop for generating missing variables
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"Jesper Lindhardsen" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Fwd: foreach loop for generating missing variables
Date
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:00:03 +0200
Hi Andreas
This should work, although a crude method:
forvalues val=100/894{
capture gen x`val'=.
}
I must admit that I think your reason(s) for doing this should be
re-evaluated ;-)
HTH,
Jesper
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of andreas chai
Sent: 23 September 2011 03:16
To: statalist
Subject: st: Fwd: foreach loop for generating missing variables
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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