Re: st: forvalues, foreach and macro

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Try

${toto`i'}

Stata is evaluating

$toto

then

`i'

which is not what you want.

Quelle horreur....

This is documented at [U] 18.3.10.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 6 December 2013 19:02, BENSIDOUN Isabelle
<isabelle.bensidoun@cee-recherche.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there anyone to help me ?
>
> I try to run the following code but it does not work
>
> forvalues i=2/ $c{
> mat drop _all
> global toto`i'= "cf`i'h* cf`i'f*"
> foreach VAR of varlist $toto`i' {
> bootvar `VAR'
> scalar `VAR'=`VAR'[1]
> scalar se_`VAR' = sigma
> scalar t_`VAR' =  `VAR'[1]/sigma
> scalar p_`VAR'=ttail($r, abs(t_`VAR'))
> }
> }
>
> In fact I don't understand why stata does not understand that
> foreach VAR of varlist $toto`i' means, when i=2, foreach VAR of varlist $toto2
> and instead understand foreach VAR of varlist 2 as mentionned in the following trace
>
>  forvalues i=2/ $c{
> = forvalues i=2/ 9{
> - mat drop _all
> - global toto`i'= "cf`i'h* cf`i'f*"
> = global toto2= "cf2h* cf2f*"
> - foreach VAR of varlist $toto`i' {
> = foreach VAR of varlist 2 {
> 2 invalid name
>   bootvar `VAR'
>   scalar `VAR'=`VAR'[1]
>   scalar se_`VAR' = sigma
>   scalar t_`VAR' = `VAR'[1]/sigma
>   scalar p_`VAR'=ttail($r, abs(t_`VAR'))
>   }
>
> Thank in advance for your suggestions.
>
> Isabelle
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