st: foreach help

[Tina Hernandez-Boussard <boussard@stanford.edu>]

HI All,

I was hoping that someone might help me trouble shoot my foreach loop.  Seems very simple, yet I keep getting an error.  My code is:

. levelsof category , local(levels)
`"allergies"' `"assessment and plan"' `"history of present illness"' `"laboratory results"' `"medications"' `"past medical history
> "' `"physical exam"' `"plan"' `"social history"'

. foreach 1 of local levels {
  2. sum(nonlmct ) if category ==`1'
  3. di r(sum)
  4. }
allergies not found
r(111);


Yet if I run this code outside of the loop I get an the below:

. sum(nonlmct ) if category =="allergies"

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
     nonlmct |        72         4.5    2.897303          2         12

. di r(sum)


Any help??

Thanks!

Tina
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