Many thanks to Nick Cox and Nick Winter for their explanations. I
have adopted the solution that involves a separate "toskip" macro and
it works very well.
Friedrich Huebler
--- Nick Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
> . local files : dir . files "*.dta"
> . local toskip `""united states 2002.dta""'
> . local files2 : list files - toskip
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