Paul, Ultra-edit does this very nicely see: www.ultra-edit.com. Once
the program is installed, use menus: search/find in files/and specify
*.do and the text you are looking for. See
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html for additional
info on some ohter text editors that might have this capability.
hope this helps, Tim
On 6/21/07, Paul Seed <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
I am running Stata version 9.2 (fully updated) on a Dell Latitude with
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1 build 2600)..
Whenever I open Windows explorer & try to search for a do file, containing a
particular piece of text, no files are found. This is so however many
do files there actualy are with the relevant text. This does not affect any
other file type; indeed changing the extension to (e.g.) txt "solves" the
problem, and files can then be found. . But changing the extensions on all my
do files to something else is not feasible even as a work-around.
There does not seem to It appears that this OS does not search inside a file
with 2-letter extensions.
As this is Windows bug, StataCorp is unable to help & there is no FAQ about it.
However, I am informed that the problem also comes up in Vista
Does anyone know a work-around that does not involve uninstalling Windows?
(e.g. another applicaiton that will search inside do files).
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
