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st: RE: single spaces in outfile - additional comment


From   "Nick Winter" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: single spaces in outfile - additional comment
Date   Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:15:59 -0400

> With the file command, you can roll your own version of this fairly
> easily:
> 
>    version 6
>    file open myfile using <filename>, text write replace
>    local N=_N
>    forval i=1/`N' {
>       local line : di _col(1) varname1[`i'] _col(25) varname2[`i'] ...
>       file write myfile `"`line'"' _n
>    }
>    file close myfile
>    version 7
> 

I should note that the original request was for a single space between
variables -- then the fifth line would look like this:

   local line : di varname1[`i'] " " varname2[`i'] " " varname3[`i'] ...

Nick Winter
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