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st: Need to read a value in a stata table into a variable
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"Subramanian, Hemang" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Need to read a value in a stata table into a variable
Date
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:02:17 +0000
Hi stata-listers,
I have a stata table in the following format:
<ac_code> <sale_date> id
1234 1Jan2003 1
1235 2Jan2005 2
Id is the unique identifier for each row. Is it possible to read the values of ac_code and sale_date into a local variable say "code" and "sd".
I tried using foreach var in ac_code sale_date{...
....
...
}
each time this logic returns only the first row.. in the table.
I need to loop through the entire stata table of approximately 40000 rows, then use the values stored in local variables "code" & "sd" to perform further analytics on another larger .dta file (stata file).
Thanks in advance.
warm regards.
Hemang C Subramanian
Ph.D. Candidate, Information Technology & Management,
Primary Instructor - Business Programming
Ernest K Scheller Jr. College of Business
Georgia Tech, 800 W. Peachtree Street,
Atlanta 30318
Ph:1-404-530-9135
URI:http://bit.ly/hemangcs
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