stata programing questions

[Eddie Pengma]

Dear All,

I met another stata programing problems. How to understand the "w _n _n" in the following systax.

foreach t of numlist 1978 1980(5)2005 2007{
display in w _n_n "year: " `t'
tabstat gender *sav* if year==`t'
by (race) format(%4.2f) nototal
}

Thank you sincerely,

Best

[Nick Cox]

display in white (old syntax; now usually (always?) ignored)

display _newline _newline (documented: see help display)