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Re: st: foreach loop over all variables


From   Tim Wade <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: foreach loop over all variables
Date   Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:14:25 -0500

Help -varlist- provides the following: "Many commands understand the
keyword _all to mean all variables"

so this also works:

sysuse auto.dta
foreach var of varlist _all {
summ `var'
}

Tim



On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Seliger  Florian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> Maybe that's a silly question, but Google didn't give any answers:
>
> I want to create a loop with foreach over ALL variables in a dataset,
>
> foreach ALL VARIABLES {
> ...
> }
>
> It is not possible to write
>
> foreach var1-var100
>
> because the number and names of the variables vary from dataset to dataset and the do-file has to work for any dataset without making any changes.
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
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>
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