Re: st: Looping or macro needed??? - Followup question

[Sarah Elizabeth Edgington <sedging@ucla.edu>]

.
The clear command is not wiping out the log statement.  Since you 
don't provide info on what you actually did or in what way it isn't 
working I can't give you any guidance on what is actually going wrong 
with what you've done.

Whether you make one log or eight is entirely a matter of personal 
preference.  If you wanted to you could even do both by using the 
name option on one of the logs (see -help log- for more info on that).

Let's assume you want to do eight separate logs.  Your setup might 
look like this:

foreach s in aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg hhh {
       log using "P:\ProjectName \logs\logforMat070809_`s'.log", replace
       use  "P:\ProjectName \Mat070809_`s'.dta, clear

       ...

       log close
}

-Sarah



At 07:28 AM 6/3/2011, Jennifer A Hoff wrote:
> OK I got the loop working  - Thanks Nick!
>
>
> Next question is how to deal with making a log file
>
> Do I put the log statement outside the loop and make one log file
> containing results of all 8 datasets?
> Or do I put the log command inside of the loop and make a log file for
> each?
>
> Neither seems to be working on my first attempts.
> Is the clear command wiping out the log statement?
>
>
>
> foreach s in aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg hhh {
>        use  "P:\ProjectName \Mat070809_`s'.dta, clear
>        ...
> }
>
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