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Re: st: If-command not accurate
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: If-command not accurate
Date
Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:43:49 +0100
Your title is misleading. You need
if "'var'" == "PF_ret6" {
(there doesn't seem to be a single left quotation mark on the device
I am using). You are looking for a match on names, not values.
Nick
On 7 Aug 2012, at 17:26, "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
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