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This should work too:

foreach x in AB RB PC LS GO  {

Nick

On 3 April 2013 08:05, Lisa Wang <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to import multiple Excel files into STATA and then save these
> as .dta files as an automatic process. This is my code so far:
>
> local mylist "AB" "RB" "PC" "LS" "GO"
>
> foreach x of local mylist {
>
> import excel "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Teaching\Marks_`"x"'.xlsx",
> sheet("TI") firstrow clear
>
> save mylist, replace
>
> }
>
> STATA can't seem to recognise this, which I don't really understand
> either. Is it because I might have too many quotation marks or is the
> setup incorrect?
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