st: Looping through parallel lists

["Thirukumaran, Caroline Pinto" <dr.caroline.pt@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have several repetitive blocks of code like the ones below. How can
I use  -foreach- or -forvalues- commands for shortening such blocks of
code?

Example:
use "$filepath\Cardiac.dta", clear
codebook case_number
reshape wide cardiac_icd9 cardiac_icd9description, i(case_number) j(countvar)
tab op_year
save "$filepath\Cardiac.dta", replace

use "$filepath\Concurrent.dta", clear
codebook case_number
reshape wide cpt_con cpt_condescription, i(case_number) j(countvar)
tab op_year
save "$filepath\Concurrent.dta", replace

The difference in the two blocks lies in line 1 (filename), 3 (list of
multiple variables) and 5 (filename) of each block. I am using Stata
12.1 for Windows

Many thanks in advance,
Caroline
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