Re: st: Terminating a loop when a certain value is reached.

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Not much detail here.

One possibility is that you are forgetting that

if generationnum == 2

can only mean

if generationnum[1] == 2

Nick

On 1 Apr 2013, at 13:03, Stephen Cranney <scranney@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Hi all, I'm trying to figure out how to break out of a loop once a
> variable is changed to a certain value. In each iteration, the value
> is modified according to the inputs within the loop. I've tried to use
> an "if" command:
>
> if generationnum==2 {
>        continue, break
>        }
>
> but it's still not terminating the loop. Does anybody know of a
> command to terminate a loop once a specified calculated number is
> reached?
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/