I'm not familiar with Javadoc.
I think it is highly possible. You would need
to read in a series of files, select the
relevant stuff, and write to a master file.
In Stata, you _could_ read in do files
as string variables, but a better approach
would probably be based on -file-.
However, it would be surprising if anyone had
anticipated your needs by writing some Stata
code to do precisely this. Also, fond though
I am of Stata, if this were my problem I would
use some scripting language (Awk, Perl, Python,
etc., etc.) or programmable text
editor to automate this task.
Iben Fasterholdt
> Is it possible to automatically generate documentation for
> Stata do-files in
> the same fashion as in for example javadoc?
>
> Introduction to javadoc, see the link below:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/
>
> We would like to be able to write something like the following:
>
> /*
> * @author (our names)
> * @version (versioninformation)
> * @description (description and usage of the program)
> * @param (program parameters)
> */
>
> program define ....
> syntax ......
> .
> .
> .
> end
>
> We would like to have a script that can gather all this
> information from
> different do-files, to one documentation-file. Does anyone
> know of such a
> script / program?
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