You certainly should not be copying and pasting
stuff to do this.
Dimitriy Masterov already drew attention
to the extended macro function -: dir-
for this.
In addition, -fs- from SSC puts filenames in a macro.
It is a wrapper for that e.m.f.
-fs- was named by analogy with -ds-. In
each case, the obvious output is a compact
list in the Results window, but the really
useful output is the macro left in memory.
So,
cd /mydir/interestingstuff
qui fs *
foreach f in `r(files)' {
...
}
Nick
[email protected]
Radu Ban
> I want to read into Stata a bunch of text files, that are all sitting
> in the same folder. I've written a do-file that does the reading in
> part, but now I'm looking for a way to loop this do-file over all the
> files in the folder.
>
> I have seen the -dir- command which gives me a list of all the files
> in the folder, but after that I'm pretty much stuck. I think I can
> copy and paste this list into my editor and then play with it but it
> seems like a very inefficient method. Especially if new files are
> added into the folder at a later time.
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