st: searching the notes

[Roger Harbord <roger.harbord@bristol.ac.uk>]

Is there any way of searching all the -notes- for a given string?  I find 
-lookfor- very useful when dealing with datasets with many variables but it 
would be even more useful if it had a -, notes- option to allow searching of 
the notes attached to the variables too. Alternatively maybe if -notes list- 
had a -, find(string)- option..?

I realise that you need to have a lot of notes in your dataset to find this 
useful - we do here as our database manager has set up a clever system (don't 
ask me how it works) to export from Access to Stata so each Field Description 
in Access becomes a note attached to that variable in Stata. (The Field 
Descriptions are too long to make useful variable labels and often exceed the 
limit of 80 characters for variable labels.)

Thanks,
Roger.
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Roger Harbord     mailto:roger.harbord@bristol.ac.uk
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol

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