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Re: st: If-command not accurate
From
"Daniel Brodback" <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: If-command not accurate
Date
Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:43:06 +0200
Dimitriy,
you are right. I did not know this notation yet. Thank you very much for your quick help, much appreciated!
Best,
Daniel
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:34:21 -0700
> Von: "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: If-command not accurate
> You are misunderstanding how if works. This is a common misconception.
> The first pass through the loop, the condition "if PF_dy == PF_ret6"
> means if the first observation of PF_dy equals PF_ret6, do some stuff.
> You probably want -if "`var"=="PF_ret6" {-. This does the string
> comparison you had in mind.
>
> DVM
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Daniel Brodback <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > in a foreach-loop, I am trying to "catch" a specific case and therefore
> I implement this with an if-command.
> >
> > For my varlist, I want certain commands to be executed but when var
> "PF_ret6" occurs, I need different commands.
> >
> > I implemented this in the following way (Stata SE 11.2):
> >
> > foreach var of varlist PF_dy-PF_ret6 {
> > if `var' == PF_ret6 {
> > ...
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > }
> > }
> >
> > The weird behavior is, that for the first variables everything works as
> expected. But when the variable prior to PF_ret6 is reached (named
> PF_lret6), it also enters the if-condition.
> > Is there a way to assure that the if-command only uses PF_ret6 but not
> PF_lret6?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Daniel
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