st: RE: RE: splitting a list - thanks

["Rajesh Tharyan" <R.Tharyan@exeter.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Thanks for this  ... really helps. I can now use this logic to do various
other things ..

Regards
rajesh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 20 October 2006 16:13
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: RE: splitting a list

-savesome- is one way to do it. -savesome- 
is not awesome, but it will do. 

You can do everything in one loop. For example, 

forval i = 1/10 { 
	local first = 1 + 500 * (`i' - 1) 
	local last = `first' + 499 
	savesome var in `first'/`last' using file`i' 
} 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Rajesh Tharyan
 
> I have a file with one variable and 5000 observations. Is 
> there a way to
> create say 10 different files with 500 observations in each 
> and serially
> number them . i.e the first file would contain obs 1/500, the 
> next file
> would contain 501/1000 observations and so on. 
> 
> One option I had in mind was use savesome (a user written ado) 
> 
> For example
> 
> savesome var in 1/500 using file1.dta
> 
> but I am not sure how to automate the process..

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