st: Re: checking if a dataset exists

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

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Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Thompson" <jat@northwestern.edu>
To: "statalist" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:35 AM
Subject: st: checking if a dataset exists



> Could someone give me a pointer on how to conditionally execute Stata code 
> based on the existence of a file or lack thereof? Is there an 
> OS-independent way of doing this? I would like to do something like "if a 
> dataset exists in a particular location, use it. otherwise build it and 
> then use it."
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