Re: st: foreach command with multiple varlists

[Steve Nakoneshny <scnakone@ucalgary.ca>]

Fatma,

One initial problem I see is that you can only -gen- a var once. Every subsequent manipulation of that var will have to be done using -replace-. I suspect that you might be able to get away with something like as follows (untested):

g w=.
forval i 1/4 {
	replace w=x`i' if y`i'==2 & z`i'==1
}

Steve

On 2013-03-28, at 2:26 PM, Fatma Romeh wrote:

> Dear statalist,
> 
> I have a question regarding the "foreach" command.  I'm wondering whether I can use multiple valists with "foreach"? More specifically, I'm looking for something like that:
> 
> foreach x of varlist  x1-x4  &  y of varlist y1-y4   &   z of varlist z1-z4 {
> 
>     gen  w= `x' if `y'==2 & `z'==1
> }
> 
> when I did that, I got this error message: "& invalid name". What I want to do is to use the "foreach" command to replace these commands:
> gen  w= x1 if y1==2 & z1==1
> gen  w= x2 if y2==2 & z2==1
> gen  w= x3 if y3==2 & z3==1
> gen  w= x4 if y4==2 & z4==1
> 
> Is there a way to do that?
> 
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> 
> Fatma, 
> 
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