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RE: st: log file lines numbers - can they be created/inserted
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: log file lines numbers - can they be created/inserted
Date
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:42:04 +0000
Vim is my favourite.
Nick
[email protected]
Ben Hoen
Thanks Guys!
Nick, what, pray-tell, is the "smart" text editor you use? (Mine - Notepad
- is evidently as dumb as a doornail.)
Nick Cox
Interesting question. Absent any option for this in -log- that I can see, an
evident alternative is to do it after the fact.
In my own favourite text editor, there is an easy way to show line numbers,
and probably a way to add line numbers, and what one smart text editor can
do, another can.
Alternatively, this quick and dirty utility passed precisely one test:
*! 0.0.1 NJC 18 Nov 2010
program lineno
version 11.0
syntax anything(name=file) , saving(str) [ replace ]
if "`replace'" == "" {
confirm new file `"`saving'"'
}
tempname hi ho
file open `hi' using `"`file'"', r
file open `ho' using `"`saving'"', w `replace'
file read `hi' line
local i = 1
while r(eof) == 0 {
file write `ho' "`i' " `"`macval(line)'"' _n
file read `hi' line
local ++i
}
file close `ho'
end
Perhaps 11.0 can be decreased; meaning, I didn't test this in Stata 10 or
lower.
The code points up one tricky point: in just copying lines, you must be
careful to inhibit macro substitution.
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