Thank you for pointing me to some helpful resources!
Erika
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Phil Clayton
<philclayton@internode.on.net> wrote:
> Alternatively you could pass the quarter as a argument to the do-files. See "[U] 16.4 Programming with do-files" for details.
>
> Phil
>
> On 08/04/2013, at 10:20 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You could use a global.
>>
>> Nick
>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On 8 April 2013 01:14, Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com> 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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