Re: st: Defining upper limit of loop

["Thomas, Anthony" <anthony_h_thomas@brown.edu>]

Stata probably will not let you do that. Variable names cannot be a
number, and "forval" type loops expect a numeric range (i.e. "variable
name" would have to be a number). If you want to use variables in a
loop, consider using:

foreach i of varlist "varlist"{

     commands

}

Anthony

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Nabin Kafle <nkafle89@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way that I can use the forvalues command in stata in a way
> that I upper value of the loop can be defined from the varibale list.
>
> forvalues i = 1/"var name" {
> code for loop
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