Order Stata
Programming features
Programming features 
- Sophisticated parsing
- Looping and branching
- Markup and control language
- Access to internal system variables
- Binary and text file I/O
- ODBC/SQL support
- Access to files on the Internet
- List processing
- Path and file utilities
- Extensive set of functions for string and data manipulation, including regular expressions and Unicode
- Window management
- Automation
Object-oriented programming
- Inheritance
- Encapsulation of data structures and programs
- Program-name overloading
Menu language
- Add items to existing menus
- Add new menus
- Create dialog interfaces
Long string/BLOB support
- Up to 2,000,000,00-character long strings
- Binary "string" (BLOBs)
- Import entire files into BLOBs/long strings
- Export files from BLOBs/long strings
Unicode support
- UTF-8
- Translation of extended ASCII to UTF-8
- Unicode-aware string functions
- Locale-based sorting and string comparison
Watch Unicode in Stata.
Project Manager
- Handle dozens or hundreds of scripts at once
- Portable project file/collections for working on multiple computers or sharing with colleagues
Numerics by Stata
- Create applications with the power of Stata inside them; see the Numerics by Stata page for more information.
Programming utilities for...
- Debugging programs
- Measuring convergence
- Marking relevant sample
- Storing results
- Handling time-series variables
- Confirming variable types
- Controlling display formats
- Parsing factor variables
Extensibility
- Ability to add new commands to Stata Updated
- Ado: scripting language
- Mata: C/C++ like compiled (byte-code) matrix
programming language
- Mata: object-oriented programming
- Open development environment: access to the same programming tools StataCorp developers use
- Access to source of many Stata commands and Mata functions
- Plugins (DLLs or shared objects)
- Java plugins—call Java libraries directly from Stata Updated
Dynamic document generation New
Creation of Word, Excel, and PDF files
- High-level creation of Word documents containing Stata results and graphs New
- Low-level programmatic access for fine-control creation of Word documents Updated
- High-level creation of PDF files containing Stata results and graphs New
- Low-level programmatic access for fine-control creation of PDF files Updated
- High level import/export of full Excel worksheets
- Low-level cell-by-cell access to write results to and read data
from Excel, including graphs, formulas, date formats, currency
formats, bold, italics, and more.
Additional resources
See New in Stata 15 for more about what was added in Stata 15.
