Re: st: read values of tempvar instead of variable label

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

Erik,

I do not fully understand what you are trying to do here, but chances
are you do not need temporary variables. I will explain what your code
does, maybe this helps. Otherwise rephrase your question to clearify
what your data loojks like and what you want it to look like.

gen newvar=.
// creates a new variable newvar with missing values for all cases

tempvar tmpnr
gen `tmpnr'= var1
// creates a temporary variable, named __000000 that is a copy of var1
// note that this variable does not have a variable or value label attached

replace newvar=1 if othervar`tmpnr'==1
// this does not work, because there is no variable named
othervar__000000 in your dataset
// I do not see what you are trying to do here, but others may have an idea

Do you want something like

g newvar = .
qui levelsof var1 ,l(lvls)
foreach l of loc lvls {
    qui replace newvar = `x' if (othervar`x' == 1)
}

Best
Daniel

-- 
Dear all, Sorry to ask such a newbie question, but I can't find the
answer elsewhere. Can anyone please tell me how to get the code below
to work?
I am trying to use tempvar in order to use the value of a variable to
address another variable.
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