st: Re: Challenging foreach problem

[daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com>]

Anwar,

I am not entirely sure, what exactly you are trying to do, partly
because this is not my field. From your code I understand, that you
want to create a number of indicator variables. Probabaly you want
something like:

loc A `""350.2", "352.12", "368.58""'
loc B `""354.15" "387.89" "369.56""'

loc i 0
foreach x in A B {
    foreach v of varlist pdx-sdx8 {
        g byte `v'disease_`x' = inlist(`v', ``x'')
    }
}

Note the underscore "_" in "`v'disease_`x'" replacing the embedded
space in your code, which is not allowed in variable names.

Best
Daniel

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Dear Statlist reader ,


I am working on a patient dataset  with patients identification code
observation( each row), and 15 variables containing ICD9 diagnosis
codes ( string varaibles) .Part of the dataset if posted below

For diseases of my interest
1)disease A with icd9 codes "350.2" "352.12" "368.58"
2)disease B("354.15" "387.89" "369.56") ]

 I am using the foreach command

foreach x in pdx sdx1 sdx2 sdx3 sdx4 sdx5 sdx6 sdx7 sdx8{
icd9 gen `x'disease A=`x', range"350.2" "352.12" "368.58")
}

foreach x in pdx sdx1 sdx2 sdx3 sdx4 sdx5 sdx6 sdx7 sdx8{
icd9 gen `x'disease B=`x', range"354.15" "387.89" "369.56")
}

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