Didn't know about it, just installed it, and it is exactly what I need.
Thank you Joseph and Nick,
Gabi
On Jan 31, 2008 11:26 AM, Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gabi Huiber wrote:
>
> Is there a way to save somewhere the file names found with Stata's dir
> command?
>
> I have this problem where I need to fish out a list of weekly files
> from a directory, and do things to them one by one. They are named
> fileYYYYMMDD.txt but they don't necessarily come on the same day of
> the week, and some weeks are skipped.
>
> It would be good if I could produce a list of YYYYMMDD's and take it
> from there, and I want Stata to just read the file names and remember
> them -- whether as a macro or a list (I have no other name for a
> vector with non-numeric elements).
>
> Has anybody done this in Stata before?
>
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>
> Are you aware of Nick Cox's -fs-? It would seem to do what you describe.
>
> -findit fs- turns it up, along with a lot of other things, so scan down the
> results, or type
>
> -net describe fs, from(http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/f)- .
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
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