Re: st: Newbie type question

["Neil Shephard" <nshephard@gmail.com>]

On 3/7/07, Morrison Hodges <hodge002@umn.edu> wrote:
> This is a beginner's question, I'm sure, but I have not been able to do what
> I want to do.
> I have a lot of files generated by a separate custom program, all in the
> form of *.rtdata. The * denotes the mnemonic for the patient's name. I want
> to do some data studies on each file, and have started a .do file to do
> that. The .do file name is rtanalysis, and a sample patient file is
> smith.rtdata. I would like to type:
>
> "do rtanalalysis smith"
>
> and have the do file open the file "smith.rtdata" and do the analysis I have
> written. Can anyone help? Thanks
In the call...

. do rtanalsysis smith

the "smith" part is an argument, and you can refer to arguments by
their indexed value, so wherever you would want to use the patients
name in the do-file you should use `1' in your do-file.

In the manuals I have to hand this is in [U] 19.6.1 (but they are an
old v6 set so this may have changed in newer versions).

Neil

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