Local define range of columns

[Marcela Vieira]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to select a range of columns for a foreach loop but am unsuccessful!

I would like to select all colunms from 8 to 62 OR from column named "d_oc77mean" up until column named "mo50_oc81m"

So far, I have my code is:
. local i=8/62
. display `i'


OR


. local valist = "d_oc77mean - mo50_oc81m"
. display `valist'



Neither of the codes above work though ... Could anyone please help?

Many thanks!

[Fei Wang]

Marcela, if your final purpose is to use a foreach loop, then you may directly write the list of variables in the code, as below.

foreach v of varlist d_oc77mean-mo50_oc81m {
    ...
}

[Jared Greathouse]

foreach susanoo of var d_oc77mean-mo50_oc81m {
cls
su `susanoo'
}