st: Analysis of text

[Taavi Lai <taavi.lai@ut.ee>]

Dear statalisters,

I have a set (~10 000) of text files, each containing questionnaire 
answers for one person. These files are structured as plain text files 
without any tabular form.
I�d like to loop through all these files and generate one datafile as a 
result. Say, "M1" represents a question number and the value for this 
question is thus the text/number between  "M1" and "M2".

Could such a thing be done using Stata? Any suggestions and comments are 
welcome.

Best regards,
Taavi
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