loop with string variables

[EViews Gareth]

You're doing the looping correctly. However you are not using string variables correctly. A string variable is literally that; a variable containing a piece of text. If you want to use an EViews object with a name equal to the piece of text, you have to enclose the string variable in { }.

i.e. when you say

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%i/100

You're saying "take the piece of text stored in %i and divide it by 100."

When you say

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{%i}/100

You're saying "take the object called %i and divide its contents by 100."


Thus you should change your code to be:

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for %i x y z j k series pc_{%i}={%}i/{%i}(-1)*100-100 next