Stata command in Mata's loop

[Minch Park]

As we know, we can run a Stata command in Mata as below:

mata:
mata stata display "Hi!"
end

In my problem, I have to use a Stata command in Mata's for loop, however, I realized that a command like the above does not work:

mata:
for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
mata stata display "Hi!"
}
end

Specifically, it returns an error message "invalid expression".

So, my question is that is there a way to run a Stata command in the loop?

[Joseph Coveney]

Try instead the stata() Mata function.

mata:

for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
    stata(`"display "Hi!""')
}

end

[Minch Park]

Joseph Coveney It works perfectly! Thank you so much!