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st: Setting a variable's value equal to the name of another variable
From
Nima Darbari <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Setting a variable's value equal to the name of another variable
Date
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:21:10 +0100
Dear all
I have written the simple code below to set the value of a variable
equal to the name of another variable if some conditions are met, but
I keep receiving 'type mismatch' error. As you see the variables names
are consisted of 'Listedness' and numbers from 1 to 371. I changed
type of the 'IPO' variables which contains 0 or 1 originally, to
string, but it didn't help.
foreach var of varlist Listedness1-Listedness371{
forvalues d=1/`=_N'{
if `var'[`d'] ==1 & `var'[`d'-1]==0 & IPO[`d']==1 & IPO[`d'-1]==0{
replace IPO="`var'" in `d'
}
}
}
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