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Re: st: Creating filename variable
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Nick Winter <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Creating filename variable
Date
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:27:15 -0400
And to populate <filenames>:
local filenames : dir "." files "*.dta"
foreach fn of local filenames {
...
}
On 3/25/2014 11:46 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
foreach <filename> in <filenames> {
<get>
<do>
gen file_name = "`filename'"
<put>
}
Nick
[email protected]
On 25 March 2014 15:43, Anya Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm creating a do file that loops through files in a directory formatting
them. I need to extract the name of each file and save it as variable
(file_name) within that file. Could anyone advise me on how to do this?
Many thanks in advance!
Anya
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