Re: st: loop with global marco

[Nick Bornschein <nick.bornschein@gmail.com>]

The solution is:

foreach x in var1 var2 var3 {
	su $`x'
}

;))



Am 19.02.14 13:33, schrieb Nick Cox:
> foreach x in $var1 $var2 $var3
>
> That way the macroname gets expanded to the macro contents and
> -foreach- just sees the results of that, not the globals.
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 19 February 2014 12:23, Nick Bornschein <nick.bornschein@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I defined 3 global macros, each of them containing the names of variables:
> > (... means there are a lot more variables in it)
> >
> > global var1 "hope truth..."
> > global var2 "life death..."
> > global var3 "never loose..."
> >
> > Now I want to summarize the global macros in blocks with:
> >
> > foreach x of global var1 var2 var3 {
> > su `x'
> > }
> >
> > But it does not work, it always runs through all variables without creating
> > blocks. What is the problem?
> >
> > -Nick
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