Re: st: For loops, If Statements and Delimiters

[Ryan Stevens <stevrl7@gmail.com>]

So I just re-pasted the code I typed for the email, and adapted it for
the do file and everything is working fine. I'm still a little dumb
founded on where the actual error lay, I think it was some spacing
issues with my semi-colons.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Joerg Luedicke
<joerg.luedicke@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you look at the -trace-? (-help trace-) Perhaps you could post an
> excerpt of it.
>
> Joerg
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Ryan Stevens <stevrl7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm guessing that using Stata 12 should have no effect? Also, this is
>> code I've extracted from a larger do file and changed a bit to make it
>> more general. If you're getting it to work, maybe there's something
>> going on with the rest of my do file that I'm unaware of. But I was
>> hoping to see if anyone else had had similar issues with delimiters
>> and for loops. Thanks both of you for responding so quickly.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Joerg Luedicke
>> <joerg.luedicke@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> FWIW, I cannot replicate this. Running the following in Stata 11.2:
>>>
>>> *------------------------------------------
>>> clear
>>> set obs 100
>>>
>>> forval i=1/3 {
>>>         gen var`i' = `i'
>>> }
>>>
>>> # delimit ;
>>> local j = 1;
>>> foreach x of varlist var1-var3{;
>>>        forval i = 1/12{;
>>>              if(`j'<3){;
>>>                  replace `x' = `x'[`i']-`x'[`j'] in `i';
>>>                  local j = `j' + 1;
>>>              };
>>>              else{;
>>>                  replace `x' = `x'[`i']-`x'[`j'] in `i';
>>>                  local j = 3;
>>>              };
>>>         };
>>> };
>>>
>>> *------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> works as expected:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>> - forval i = 1/12{
>>> - if(`j'<3){
>>> = if(1<3){
>>> - replace `x' = `x'[`i']-`x'[`j'] in `i'
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Joerg
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Any suggestion? Mine would include not using ; as a delimiter.   More
>>>> positively, I would always put a space before each brace.
>>>>
>>>> My vague recollection is that there are some very obscure bugs that
>>>> can bite with semi-colons, although a search did not turn up a precise
>>>> post, but spaces before braces might be the territory.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Ryan Stevens <stevrl7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have been having an issue with using for loop and if statements
>>>>> together with a semi-colon delimiter. The following is some example
>>>>> code for the problem I've come across:
>>>>>
>>>>> # delimit ;
>>>>> local j = 1;
>>>>> foreach x of varlist var1-var3{;
>>>>>        forval i = 1/12{;
>>>>>              if(`j'<3){;
>>>>>                  replace `x' = `x'[`i']-`x'[`j'] in `i';
>>>>>                  local j = `j' + 1;
>>>>>              };
>>>>>              else{;
>>>>>                  replace `x' = `x'[`i']-`x'[`j'] in `i';
>>>>>                  local j = 3;
>>>>>              };
>>>>>         };
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> Whenever I try running this I get an error on my if statement, where
>>>>> Stata interprets "< 3" as a variable name. Any suggestions for loops
>>>>> and if statements using delimiters would be greatly appreciated.
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