Re: st: Which and return list

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Yes, there is a need for a program like this.

I have the situation in which research fellows use programs that I and 
others have developed. There is a archive, web accessibe, in which we place 
new ado files. However, fellows often do not take advantage of the archive 
or occasionally we forget to post changes to the archive. What then follows 
is that not everyone has an updated set of ado files. The question for us 
is whether two are more users have the same set of ado files.

The program that I would like to see is allied to Ade's request. I would 
like to see a program that scanned a DO file for ado files and then 
reported back in a sorted list the version of the ado files. There might be 
statements to allow or prevent searching some files such as Stata Corp 
files or STBPlus files. This would be a helpful utility.

A second program that would be helpful is one that would search for ado 
files by a keyword. Keyword searches work fine for StataCorp and STB files, 
but not for ordinary ado files that one may have written and placed in the 
ado/personal directory. What I have been doing is to place a line in the 
ado file like this:
*! keyword: some keywords
and then use the search program -dtsearch- to search for "keyword" and the 
actual keywords within 25 characters.

The reason I need to search is that I often forget the names of programs 
not often used.

Fred

At 04:14 AM 3/19/2004, you wrote:

> Has anyone ever wanted to program an ado file that inspected the version of
> another program.
> If only  the -which- command inspected the  *! lines and stripped out the
> version number.
>
> Perhaps there should be a set of standard *! lines at the start of an
> adofile to help with this.
>
> e.g.
> *! Version : 1.42
> Then -which- could give the version number in the return list.
>
> Any thoughts anyone?
>
> cheers
> Ade
>
> Adrian Mander MSc PhD, Principal Statistician, GlaxoSmithKline, Mail Code
> HW8133, New Frontiers Science Park (South), Harlow, Essex, CM19 5AW. Tel:
> 01279 63 1203 Fax: 01279 64 4003
>
>
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Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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