st: Re: loop over file names

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

You're close.  You need to use / in file paths, not \ because \ is a signal 
to not expand the following macro.  Just change the slashes in both the 
insheet and save commands and you're on the right track.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wanli Zhao" <zhaowl@temple.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:46 AM
Subject: st: loop over file names



> I just cannot find the old thread about this.
> I have some files called 1993.txt ... 2003.txt.
>
> 1. I want to insheet the files by "foreach" or "forvalues".
> If I do:
> forvalues i of 1993(1)2003 {
> insheet using c:\`i'.txt
> ...
> }
> It is not working. I also tried other ways and cannot figure how. Invalid
> syntax.
>
> 2. within each file processing, I need to do "gen year=`i'"
>
> 3. after the processing, I need to save the file as ...\`i'.dta.
>
> I am obviously stuck at the "insheet" step but maybe I need to change 2 
> and
> 3 also? I appreciate your help. Thanks.
>
> Wanli
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