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Re: st: loop question


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: loop question
Date   Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:27:26 +0000

Basic technique is to _think_ your way through a loop at least twice.
Here the first time round -k- is set to 1 and so the first -save- is
skipped.

It is not clear that you need to work with -k- at all. The code seems
to reduce to

forval i = 1/37 {
    forval j =2/5 {
        import excel `i'_`j'_dieta, sheet("Sheet1") firstrow clear
        save `i'_`j'_dieta, replace
    }
}

Note that the -foreach- loop can be simplified to another -forval- loop.
Nick
[email protected]


On 17 December 2013 10:15, arosella <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
> this is sure a trivial question but the loop below doesn't save the file
> 1_2_dieta
>
>
>  local k = 1
> forval i = 1/37 {
>     foreach j of numlist 2 3 4 5 {
>         if `k' == 1 {
>             import excel `i'_`j'_dieta, sheet("Sheet1") firstrow clear
>         }
>         else {
>             save `i'_`j'_dieta, replace
>         }
>         local k = `k' + 1
>     }
> }
> Can someone help me?
> Thanks
>
> Alberto R. Osella
> Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica
> IRCCS Saverio de Bellis
> Via Turi, 27
> 70013 Castellana Grotte (BA)
> Italia
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