Re: st:reading the first X letters of a filename (Stata 8.2)

From	"Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
To	<statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Subject	Re: st:reading the first X letters of a filename (Stata 8.2)
Date	Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:48:31 -0400

I think there was also a typo in the code posted: subinstr should be used in the following command, not substr

local country : substr local f "bilateral.csv"

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

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References:
- st:reading the first X letters of a filename (Stata 8.2)
  - From: "Dev Vencappa" <lexdvv@nottingham.ac.uk>