file handle texfile not found

[Chengmou Lei]

HI all,

I'm running a code from someone else. I got the error in the title when running the following code:

local controls var1 var2 var3

* Loop through control variables
foreach var of local controls{
    file open texfile using "`var'_iv_table.tex", write replace
}

But when I run file open texfile separately without being in a loop (e.g.

file open texfile using "var1_iv_table.tex", write replace

), it runs properly. Do you know how I can resolve the error encountered in the loop?
Thank you!

[Hemanshu Kumar]

You should probably use a different file handle for each file in the loop, say something like tex_`var' instead of texfile. Even better might be to use tempnames. See help file.