David Epstein (david.l.epstein@gmail.com) reports that his original
dialog (.dlg) file still has a problem, and asks a question about
an alternative approach:
> Thanks very much to Alan for the response. In my original file, I did
> not have a line break in the TEXT field, so that's not the problem for
> me. I'm confused, then, as to why the code worked for you and not for
> me. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm on a Mac, rather than a Windows
> machine??
This shouldn't affect how the dialog works -- they are designed
to be platform independent. I actually tried your dialog under
Linux, and it worked there. Contact our Technical Services group
at tech-support@stata.com and attach your file, and they can
help debug what is going on.
> And I will check out the window fopen approach again, but I thought
> that it wouldn't work since I'm opening a .csv file rather than a
> Stata .dta file. Is this not a limitation?
The example in -help window fopen- is for a .dta file, but
-window fopen- can be used to open files of any type. Here is
an example of it for use with .csv files. It uses the -insheet-
command with the options you were wanting your dialog to put
on the command line:
program opencsv
version 12
capture window fopen FNAME "Select a file to open:" ///
"CSV Files (*.csv)|*.csv|All Files (*.*)|*.*" csv
if _rc==0 {
display "User chose $FNAME as the filename."
insheet using "$FNAME", names clear
}
end
Alan
ariley@stata.com
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