In addition to Michael Blasnik's suggestions, which are key,
I suggest that you check out -fs- from SSC.
At bottom it's just a wrapper for macrolist commands like
local files : dir . files "*.dta"
but it may be a smidgen easier to use.
More importantly, it can take multiple
file specifications.
Nick
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Friedrich Huebler
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> I would like to automate the processing of some data files. First, I
> create a macro that contains a list of all data files. Then I try to
> exlude one or more files from the list.
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