Re: st: I can't get fs to work from inside a do file

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

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I hope you realize that your line

local dofiles r(files)

simply places the text string "r(files)" into the local macro dofiles.  That is 
why word count comes up with one word.  You need to expand the local macro when 
assigning it to dofiles, like this:

local dofiles `r(files)'

If you use the equals sign, then the list will be truncated at 244 characters. 
Without the equals sign it is nearly limitless.

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
"Gabi Huiber" wrote:

> If you do
>
> local dofiles r(files)
>
> you get a string of all their names in a single word. I checked with
> word count `dofiles'. That, of course, defeats the foreach loop. It's
> bizarre, because this single-word string shows the do-file names
> neatly delimited with spaces, whereas if you do
>
> local dofiles=r(files)
>
> like I did, the do-file names in that folder look like they're all
> strung together as in file1.dofile2.do[...] yet the local `dofiles'
> does have five distinct words, one for each do-file, as it should. Try
> it with one of your do-file directories to see what I mean. Of course
> running the foreach loop directly off the `r(files)' local fixes the
> problem, but it's still a strange one, don't you think?
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