Dear all,
Thank you so much for all your help. I couldnt replicate the folder
structure on my PC because the data used to be on a network with a
completely different structure. Anyway, I used the solution given by
Stefan and it worked. There were more than 300 do-files and nearly
6000 pathnames!!! To avoid any of such problems in the future I
replaced the pathname with a global which I defined in a little
program I wrote . The approach given by Dan Blanchette was very
attractive and I will look into that. Thank you all! You saved me
hours of tedious work!
2009/9/25 <[email protected]>:
> Raoul wrote:
>> I received around 100 different do-files from a colleague, but the
> path name in each do-file is different from my computer because the
> do-files were on a different computer. Is there any easy way to change
> the path in each do-file without having to physically open each
> do-file and replace the path name?
>
> As Dan Blanchette wrote, a combination of "rcd" and "filefilter" will do
> the job within Stata.
>
>
> I once solved the same task with windows search and an editor
> (Notepad++).
>
> 1. Search for "*.do"-files in the given directory (including
> subdirectories).
> 2. Mark results (exlude unwanted results manually if needed)
> 3. Open files in editor (context menu -> "open with") (Notepad++ had no
> problem with >100 files)
> 4. Search and replace string in all open files
> 5. Save all files (with one click in Notepad ++)
>
> This only takes a few minutes.
> It's a manual approach but that might be favourable with "foreign"
> do-files. You have better insight in the process.
>
>
> Best wishes
> Stefan Gawrich
>
>
>
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