st: re: read files under certain directory automatically

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Luhang asked

Can stata put all the file names of data sets under certain directory
into a macro? Or is there some other way to read the data sets under
certain directory antomaticcally?

Nick Cox' fs command (ssc desc fs) does that. After fs *dta  it will 
return r(files) containing a list of each filename. You may then move 
that to a macro of your own and loop through the filenames therein.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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