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RE: st: mata in a while loop
From
"Ozimek, Adam" <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: mata in a while loop
Date
Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:49:20 -0400
Nick,
Thanks, I've got it working now. And I did see the other comments of yours, they were very helpful. Thanks again.
Adam
________________________________________
From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 6:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: mata in a while loop
I wasn't aware that was legal code.
This worked for me
local test = 0
file open finished using outputtest.txt, write text replace
while `test' <10 {
mata : fields = tokens(st_local("test"))
mata : st_local("output",fields[1])
file write finished "`output'" _n
local ++test
}
file close finished
Nick
P.S. note also my three postings in reply to yours of
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-09/msg00973.html
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Ozimek, Adam <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working on a program and I'm having a problem with the part of it where I do some part of it in mata within a while loop in stata. Here is a very simple mockup of what I'm trying to do:
>
>
> local test = 0
> file open finished using outputtest.txt, write text replace
>
> while `test' <10 {
> mata {
> fields = tokens(st_local("test"))
> st_local("output",fields[1])
> }
>
> file write finished "`output'" _n
> local ++test
> }
>
>
> The while loop runs fine 9 times but then when `test' = 10, it gives me this error:
> "unrecognized command: } invalid command name"
>
> and my output file looks like this:
>
> 0
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 9
>
> What am I doing wrong? ( Please ignore that it is a senseless program in itself, this mockup is broken in the same manner my real program is broken, so if I understand this hopefully I'll understand my full program problem.)
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