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Re: st: Need help with working with multiple files
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Need help with working with multiple files
Date
Mon, 27 May 2013 20:27:05 +0100
Sure. You can loop over filenames. See -fs- from SSC for one
convenience command.
Nick
[email protected]
On 27 May 2013 20:19, Michael Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to find a way to work multiple files successively.
> I have multiple large files(really large) placed in different directories
> I am trying to find a way to load each file into stata, complete bunch
> of same datamagement tasks,create a new file from it and places them
> in a common folder
>
> I could use a dofile and do something like
>
> clear
> use c\data\dataset-1
> datamagement tasks
> datamagement tasks
> datamagement tasks
> save c\data\dataset-1_new
> clear
> use c\data\newdata\dataset-2
> datamagement tasks
> datamagement tasks
> datamagement tasks
> save c\data\newdata\dataset-2_new
> clear
>
> But is there an elegant and simpler way to do it given that I have
> nearly 15 files to do data management tasks.
>
> Can we use foreach loop / forvalues loop or anything like that .Please suggest
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thank you ,
> Yours Sincerely,
> Mike.
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