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Re: st: calling another .do file?
From
Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: calling another .do file?
Date
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:26:57 +0000
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Costello, Michael (Contractor)
<mcostello/[email protected]> wrote:
> Statalist,
>
> Is it possible to have a command inside a .do file that allows you to call and execute a different .do file, then go back to the original and finish processing?
>
Yes (although a quick experiment of actually trying it out could have
answered this for you ;-).
<---Start test1.do--->
do test2.do
<---End test1.do--->
<---Start test2.do--->
di "Hello you've successfully called me from test1.do"
<---End test1.do--->
do test1
In fact you can do this multiple times and -man limits- shows you that
you can have upto 64 nested do-files.
See also [U] 16 Do-Files chapter of the Users Guide for the most
comprehensive over-view of writing do-files
Neil
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