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Re: st: An ado file for quickly switching working directories
This looks like something quite similar to my program -c-, contained in
the package -fastcd- on SSC.
--Nick Winter
Malcolm Wardlaw wrote:
I have a lot of original data sequestered away in specific working
directories that I like to be able to access on the fly when I am doing
quick and dirty analysis on data (as opposed to more formal programming
where I use do files).
I'm not an expert programmer and, while it works, I'm not sure if this
is the most efficient way to go about it. It basically reads an
existing text file line by line and takes the first matching variable
cue to switch directories. It also provides for a reading of the entire
list of potential directories with the variable "list". I'll post the
file below. If anyone has any better approaches (or possible
extensions), I'd like to hear them. Also, I don't know if there's
already a better, pre-constructed file for this. If it's an OK
approach, then I suppose I'd just like to share it with everyone if
people would like to use it.
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wd.ado:
program define wd
version 9.2
if "`1'" == "list" {
type "c:\ado\personal\workingdir.txt"
di("")
di("<--current directory-->")
pwd
di("<--current directory-->")
}
else{
tempname fh
local linenum = 0
file open `fh' using "c:\ado\personal\workingdir.txt", read
file read `fh' line
while r(eof)==0{
local a: word 2 of `line'
if word(`" `macval(line)'"',1)=="`1'"{
cd "`a'"
}
file read `fh' line
}
file close `fh'
}
end
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workingdir.txt:
data "c:\data"
ds "c:\my documents\dealscan original\"
dse "c:\my documents\Stata Data\fixed master\"
gold "c:\my documents\Stata Data\Gold data\"
cov "c:\My Documents\Stata Data\Covenant Research\"
ado "c:\ado\personal"
myd "c:\My Documents\Stata Data\"
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