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Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:34 am**

Hi,

looping over sets of strings is very convenient, like the pairs in


for %c %n US USA No Norway SE Sweden
....
next

Looping through string LISTs is also very convenient, like in

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%cL = "US No Se"

for %c {{%cL}}
...
next

which is equivalent to

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for %c US No Se
...
next

However. What I can't do (to the best of my knowledge), which would be very useful, is to loop over sets of string LISTs. Effectively merging the lists.

To be more precise, I would like to see a way to make

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%cL = "US No Se"
%nL = "USA Norway Sweden"

for %c {{%cL}} {{%nL}}
...
next

equivalent to the code-example at top.

Is this doable?

Thanks in advance,
Dagfinn

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:59 am**

Use @winterleave to create a new string variable out of the two other ones, then loop through that one.

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2016 2:20 am**

Hi,
this might be somewhat off topic, but here's my problem:
I attempt to loop over a list and numbers at the same time to store matrices identified by the list in a predefined matrix.
So far I tried

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%LIST = " Austria	Belgium	Cyprus	Denmark	Finland	France	Germany		Greece	Iceland	Ireland	Italy	Luxembourg	Malta	Netherlands	Norway	Portugal	Spain	Sweden	Switzerland	Turkey	United_Kingdom	Canada	United_States	Japan	South_Korea  "  

'store test results in matrix
FOR %IDC {%LIST}
matrix(125,2) M_BP
for !i=1 to 120 step 5
matplace(M_BP, m_{%IDC}, {!i}, 1)
next
NEXT

, where m_{%IDC} are the 5,2-matrices, which I want to store in the 125,2 matrix (beginning with the results for austria in row one, then belgium in row 6 and so forth). Obviously I can't loop around the list as it isn't assigned to the numbers at all (in the end it will store the values for south_korea in columns 1, 6 ...). Is there any way I can solve this problem in this context?

I am using Eviews 8

Thank you very much!

Palli

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:26 am**

Hard to tell if this will work or not without seeing the workfile, but give this a try:

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%LIST = " Austria   Belgium   Cyprus   Denmark   Finland   France   Germany      Greece   Iceland   Ireland   Italy   Luxembourg   Malta   Netherlands   Norway   Portugal   Spain   Sweden   Switzerland   Turkey   United_Kingdom   Canada   United_States   Japan   South_Korea  "  

'store test results in matrix
!i = 1
FOR %IDC {%LIST}
matrix(125,2) M_BP
matplace(M_BP, m_{%IDC}, {!i}, 1)
!i=!i+5
NEXT

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:45 am**

It worked! :D :D

Thank you so much, Gareth!

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