Re: st: updated version of -lookfor_all- is available from SSC

["Zurab Sajaia" <zsajaia@hotmail.com>]

Thanks a lot Austin,

I've replaced the line with
    if missing("`codebook'") local instr "in 1";
     quietly capture use `"`file'"' `instr';

Data in memory is always preserved, now I'm thinking to add an 
option -nopreserve- to speed up the program further.
Zurab


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Austin Nichols" <austinnichols@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: st: updated version of -lookfor_all- is available from SSC



> Zurab--
> I haven't downloaded or tried  -lookfor_all- but I had a look at the
> code, and it seems to me that the line
>  quietly capture use "`file'"
> could be
>  quietly capture use "`file'" in 1
> since you only need the first observation to load labels and variable
> names, if no call to -codebook- is called for, thus much reducing the
> need for memory (you could add another -use- to load all data only
> -if- `codebook' is specified).  You could also add an option to
> -preserve- the data in memory.
>
> On 2/5/07, Zurab Sajaia <zsajaia@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks you Kit Baum, updated version of -lookfor_all- is available from 
> > SSC
> > archives.
> >
> > There was a bug found in the program. The problem was that -lookfor_all-
> > skipped data files of size bigger then memory allocated to the data area,
> > without issuing any warning message. As a result the program failed to 
> > find
> > variables/labels matching the pattern in big files.
> >
> > You can download the corrected version by typing;
> >
> > adoupdate lookfor_all, update; or
> > ssc install lookfor_all, replace.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > zurab
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