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Re: st: Do Files and Arguments
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Do Files and Arguments
Date
Mon, 8 Apr 2013 01:20:09 +0100
You could use a global.
Nick
[email protected]
On 8 April 2013 01:14, Erika Kociolek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My question is related to .do files and passing arguments to them.
> Let's say that I have a file called master.do, and the .do file I want
> to run from master.do is called routine1.do.
>
> Here's the syntax in the file master.do:
>
> local quarter 2
> cd C:/Directory/MyDirectory/Q`quarter'_2012/
>
> do routine1
>
>
> Here is the syntax in the file routine1.do :
>
> use ../Q`quarter'_2012/mystatafile.dta, clear
>
>
> I don't want to have to define the local "quarter" in all of the .do
> files that I want to call and run in master.do. Is there any way to
> pass along the quarter argument to files called in the master.do file?
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