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Re: st: Macro parsing question.


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Macro parsing question.
Date   Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:57:42 +0000

That's correct, and consistent with my previous answer. Whatever is
done last determines the value of -d-. Here you do one thing, and the
last is also the first. In the loop, you do several things, and the
last is the only one that has a lasting effect.

Nick

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Amadou DIALLO <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, when I do it in the command line, I obtain what I want:
>
> . if "a" == "a" loc d %
>
> . else loc d Value
>
> . di "`d'"
> %
>
>
> 2013/2/14, Amadou DIALLO <[email protected]>:
>> Hi,
>> I spent the night programming some stuffs but cannot understand why I
>> don't obtain the expected results. I was expecting "%" but got
>> "Value". What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>       noi se tr on
>>       loc list1 a
>>       loc list2 a b c
>>       loc d
>>       foreach j of loc list1 {
>>          foreach k of loc list2 {
>>             if "`j'" == "`k'" loc d %
>>             else loc d Value
>>          } // foreach k
>>                 }
>>       di "`d'"
>>
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