On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Kit Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is a Mata function that converts all .hlp and .sthlp in the current
> working directory:
>
> -----------------
> version 10.1
> mata:
> void function genhlpfiles()
> {
> helpfiles = dir(".","files","*.*hlp")
> if (rows(helpfiles) > 0) {
> helpnames = substr(helpfiles, 1, (strpos(helpfiles,".") :- 1))
> for(i=1; i<=rows(helpfiles); i++) {
> cmd = "log html "+helpfiles[i]+" "+helpnames[i]+".html, replace"
> cmd
> stata(cmd)
> }
> }
> }
> end
Kit, any particular reason you did this Mata way as opposed to ado-way?
local helpfiles : dir "." files "*.*hlp"
local nf : word count `helpfiles'
forvalues k=1/`nf' {
local thisfile : word `k' of `helpfiles'
tokenize `thisfile', parse(".")
di as inp ". log html `1'.`3' `1'.html"
log html `1'.`3' `1'.html
}
probably does the same. Since that is compiled code, Mata will
probably be faster, but I imagine that the read/write operations are
the slowest ones, anyway.
--
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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