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Programming features

Sophisticated parsing
Looping and branching
Markup and control language
Access to internal system variables
Binary and text file I/O
JDBC support
ODBC/SQL support
Access to files on the Internet
List processing
Path and file utilities
Extensive set of functions for string and data manipulation, including regular expressions and Unicode
Window management
Automation

Object-oriented programming

Inheritance
Encapsulation of data structures and programs
Program-name overloading

Programming utilities for...

Debugging programs
Measuring convergence
Marking relevant sample
Storing results
Handling time-series variables
Confirming variable types
Controlling display formats
Parsing factor variables

Menu language

Add items to existing menus
Add new menus
Create dialog interfaces

Long string/BLOB support

Up to 2,000,000,00-character long strings
Binary "string" (BLOBs)
Import entire files into BLOBs/long strings
Export files from BLOBs/long strings

Unicode support

UTF-8
Translation of extended ASCII to UTF-8
Unicode-aware string functions
Locale-based sorting and string comparison

Watch Unicode in Stata.

Project Manager

Handle dozens or hundreds of scripts at once
Portable project file/collections for working on multiple computers or sharing with colleagues

Numerics by Stata

Create applications with the power of Stata inside them; see the Numerics by Stata page for more information.

Extensibility

Ability to add new commands to Stata
Ado: scripting language
Mata: C/C++ like compiled (byte-code) matrix programming language Updated
Mata: object-oriented programming
Open development environment: access to the same programming tools StataCorp developers use
Access to source of many Stata commands and Mata functions

PyStata — Python integration—call Python directly from Stata Updated
PyStata module—call Stata directly from Python and Jupyter Notebook Updated
Java integration—embed Java code directly in Stata Updated
Java plugins—create Java libraries for Stata
Plugins (DLLs or shared objects)
H2O integration: access H2O from Stata

Watch Python integration with Stata.
Watch PyStata—Python and Stata.
Watch Jupyter Notebook with Stata.

Reporting—Dynamic document generation

Convert Word documents to PDF
Convert HTML (including CSS) files to Word documents
Create Word documents with embedded Stata code, output, and graphs
Create HTML files with embedded Stata code, output, and graphs
Markdown

Watch Automatic production of web pages from dynamic Markdown documents.

Reporting—reproducibly create Word, Excel, and PDF files

High-level creation of Word documents containing Stata results and graphs
Low-level programmatic access for fine-control creation of Word documents
High-level creation of PDF files containing Stata results and graphs
Low-level programmatic access for fine-control creation of PDF files
High level import/export of full Excel worksheets
Low-level cell-by-cell access to write results to and read data from Excel, including graphs, formulas, date formats, currency formats, bold, italics, and more.
Bookmark support in putdocx.
SVG support in putdocx.

Watch Create Word^® documents from within Stata.
Watch Create PDF reports from within Stata.

Additional resources

See New in Stata 19 to learn about what was added in Stata 19.

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