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RE: st: Suggestion regarding lookfor
Hi,
This -lookfor- is a nice piece of work that I had no idea existed; not
that I purport to know every other Stata command.
My to-do list has long included a command like -lookfor- but with the
capacity to loop through a series of datasets, either explicitly
specified or just all the .dta files in a given folder. Does such a
program already exist?
It seems that if the -describe using filename- option could be adapted
to provide -lookfor using filename- then I would merely have to work up
a sort of wrapper program to accomplish my goal. Has anyone done this
already?
Thanks,
Pat Grealy
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Riley
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Suggestion regarding lookfor
Sergio Correia ([email protected]) asked about making
-lookfor- respect phrases when searching:
> Since I learned about -lookfor- a short time ago, I've found it
> incredibly useful specially for searching inside variable
> descriptions. However, when trying to match a string with more than
> one word, -lookfor- does something slightly undesirable.
>
> When I enter -lookfor gdp inflation-, I expect -lookfor- to find
> matches containing gdp or inflation. That, the command does fine.
>
> However, if i write
> lookfor "Gross Domestic Product"
> I expect the program to match exactly that phrase (either in lowercase
> or uppercase). Instead, I get all variables containing gross, domestic
> or product.
This is something we (StataCorp) should change. Expect to see this
in a future ado-file update.
Technical note: Sergio suggested
Change line 12 from
local looklist `"`looklist' `w'"'
To
local looklist `"`looklist' "`w'""'
That is what we will do, but we will use compound double quotes `" "'
around `w' in case the phrase in `w' has embedded double quotes:
local looklist `"`looklist' `"`w'"'"'
Alan
([email protected])
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